Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Tom Dial
On 7/29/20 06:03, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/29/2020 06:13 AM, Joe wrote: >> [snip] >> >> I'd recommend using the right tool for the job. >> > > Which is why I'll investigate. > Your approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want. With respect, Joe is right, in my opinion based

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Joe
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:51:06 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 7/30/20 5:21 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > >>> You may wish to have a look at recutils: > >> A database is over-kill

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/30/2020 09:51 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.  Yogi Berra

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 7/30/20 5:21 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: A database is over-kill for some personal preferences. I had mentioned spreadsheets in original post as I

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 30 Jul 2020 at 06:15, Richard Owlett wrote: > Does that sound at all like I saw anything in favor of SQL ? ! No but you said: > IIRC, dBase was simpler. so I suggested a simple FOSS database system. Like I said, no worries. I obviously misunderstood what you were looking

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/30/2020 04:21 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: A database is over-kill for some personal preferences. I had mentioned spreadsheets in original post as

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 01:09:15PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-07-29 05:03, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >[A suggested] approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want. > > > Consider these idealized cost functions for solution technologies A, > B, and C: > > fA(t) =

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> You may wish to have a look at recutils: > > A database is over-kill for some personal preferences. > > I had mentioned spreadsheets in original post as I had visualized a I am confused. You

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-07-29 05:03, Richard Owlett wrote: [A suggested] approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want. Consider these idealized cost functions for solution technologies A, B, and C: fA(t) = t*t + 1 fB(t) = (t/3)*(t/3) + 10 fC(t) = (t/10/*(t/10) + 100 Observe:

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/29/2020 06:13 AM, Joe wrote: [snip] I'd recommend using the right tool for the job. Which is why I'll investigate. Your approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want.

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread Joe
On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 04:40:24 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > You may wish to have a look at recutils: > > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ > > > > but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you > > could build on it

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread mick crane
On 2020-07-29 10:40, Richard Owlett wrote: A database is over-kill for some personal preferences. apropos of nothing I found this great, clear introduction to Perl/Tk for inputting how many cups of coffee and bacon sandwiches you had.

[Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say). A database is over-kill for some personal