Re: [GNC-dev] About budgets in 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10

2020-04-29 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 29, 2020, at 11:45 AM, Phil Longstaff wrote: > > Agreed. > > It is correct that Assets = Liabilities + Equity uses only positive values. > However, each balance is a credit balance or a debit balance. It is > perfectly reasonable to associate one of those types of balance with >

Re: [GNC-dev] About budgets in 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10

2020-04-29 Thread Phil Longstaff
Agreed. It is correct that Assets = Liabilities + Equity uses only positive values. However, each balance is a credit balance or a debit balance. It is perfectly reasonable to associate one of those types of balance with positive numbers and the other with negative numbers. On Wed, Apr 29, 2020

Re: [GNC-dev] About budgets in 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10

2020-04-29 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 29, 2020, at 1:42 AM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Op dinsdag 28 april 2020 18:35:16 CEST schreef John Ralls: > > > On Apr 28, 2020, at 7:27 AM, Geert Janssens > > > wrote: > > > > > > However numbers are not just meant for displaying, one needs to do > > > calculations on them as

[GNC-dev] [MAINT] VM (bugfix) Upgrade this weekend

2020-04-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, There is a bug in the current version of Ovirt I'm using that causes a periodic (like once a quarter) ABRT of one of the management services. Therefore, I am planning to upgrade to a new patch release, but that will require rebooting the VM server (and as a result, rebooting code). I plan to

Re: [GNC-dev] Porting the Tutorial & Concepts Guide to ReadTheDocs.org

2020-04-29 Thread flywire
Seems a text-based markup language might be good for document presentation but, even with a CI system, the biggest issue as a document development platform is the lack of compatibility with context-sensitive help within the program [Ref](

Re: [GNC-dev] About budgets in 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10

2020-04-29 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 29.04.20 um 10:42 schrieb Geert Janssens: > Op dinsdag 28 april 2020 18:35:16 CEST schreef John Ralls: >>> On Apr 28, 2020, at 7:27 AM, Geert Janssens >>> wrote: >>> >>> However numbers are not just meant for displaying, one needs to do >>> calculations on them as well. And at that point signs

Re: [GNC-dev] About budgets in 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10

2020-04-29 Thread Christopher Lam
On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 08:36, Geert Janssens wrote: > Finally I want to clearly point out the actual inconsistency in the budget > code is not whether it > uses a signed representation or a debit/credit notation. The issue is it > stores the budget data in > a way that's dependent on the Sign

Re: [GNC-dev] About budgets in 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10

2020-04-29 Thread Geert Janssens
Op dinsdag 28 april 2020 18:35:16 CEST schreef John Ralls: > > On Apr 28, 2020, at 7:27 AM, Geert Janssens > > wrote: > > > > However numbers are not just meant for displaying, one needs to do > > calculations on them as well. And at that point signs will matter. > > Whether a certain number

Re: [GNC-dev] About budgets in 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10

2020-04-29 Thread Geert Janssens
Adrien, As David Carlson points out not everyone knows how to interpret debit and credit. So moving away from a signed representation towards Debit/Credit representation simply moves the confusion with it. Now one has to know whether a number marked as debit was really a debit or not. That

Re: [GNC-dev] iOS app

2020-04-29 Thread Geert Janssens
Hi Camille, I'm sorry to hear you had issues setting up a development system on the Mac. You can always ask for help here if you want to retry. If you provide us with the details, we can help you make progress and perhaps identify bits of the setup that need more polishing. That aside, I run