On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:54:55PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks. I think this will work for me. The only situation I can think of > where it is not correct at the commodity level is defining asset classes that > incorporate a tax hedge strategy (i.e. tax deferred Lg Cap vs. tax immediate > Lg Cap). > > Tax policy balancing is rare but not unheard of in terms of a balanced > portfolio.
If I understand correctly, Account-level classification is the best thing for that situation, right? In fact, Account-level classification can represent _any_ type of asset balancing, can't it? > I think the KVP at the commodity level is good enough. Our datafile _already_ stores/reads account-level KVPs, so using it wouldn't break backward compatibility. -chris > As I mentioned earlier, I think I'll abandon my tree and try again from > scratch with a recent SVN copy. > > -Jon. > > ---- Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >> Given that not many people are using it yet, I would like to work out > > >> a way to implement this functionality in the upstream if possible. > > >> It need not be compatible with what I have. Would it be a reasonable > > >> comprimise to add some kind of "misc" field(s) in the XML format for > > >> purposes similar to this? In that way, we could achieve > > >> compatibility and flexibility in one fell swoop. > > > > > > Well, I would store it in the KVP, sort of how transaction notes > > > are stored in the KVP. But as I said earlier I think this particular > > > data should live with the commodity, and unfortunately I dont think the > > > current data file actually stores the Commodity KVP Frame, so it would > > > be problematic to put it there right now without making changes to the > > > XML code. > > > > For the record, I just committed code to Trunk that saves the > > commodity kvp-frame.. > > > > -derek > > -- > > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
