Re: Python Bindings

2014-05-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Keeping this on the list... That's documentation, of a sort. Not great, but it does pretty much verify that there is nothing in there for handling budget, or future transactions. Since I would need that in order to do a proper forecasting report (Balance Sheet on an arbitrary date in the

Re: Python Bindings

2014-05-31 Thread John Ralls
On May 31, 2014, at 11:42 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Keeping this on the list... That's documentation, of a sort. Not great, but it does pretty much verify that there is nothing in there for handling budget, or future transactions. Since I would need that in order to do a proper

Re: Python Bindings

2014-05-31 Thread David Osguthorpe
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 11:42:14AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Keeping this on the list... That's documentation, of a sort. Not great, but it does pretty much verify that there is nothing in there for handling budget, or future transactions. Since I would need that in order to do a proper

Re: Python Bindings

2014-05-31 Thread David Osguthorpe
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:27:25PM -0700, John Ralls wrote: Why not instead add python to the swig files for the API that you need? It's only one header, gnc-budget.h, and you can use the Guile adapter code in src/engine/engine.i as a guide. not quite as simple as this - I added

Re: Rethinking Numeric

2014-05-31 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Sonntag, 25. Mai 2014, 07:34:14 schrieb John Ralls: If we've reached the point where our int64 rational numbers do not fit our problem requirements anymore, I'd rather look for a different number representation that fits our application domain better. I'm thinking about replacing

Re: Python Bindings

2014-05-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
And I did it again! Sorry, John and David. On 05/31/2014 03:14 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ooops! I meant to send this to the list. Marc - All in all it sounds like it would be a lot more work that I am really up to at this time. Of course, learning Scheme/Guile is not really

Re: Rethinking Numeric

2014-05-31 Thread Mike Alexander
--On May 31, 2014 11:19:23 PM +0200 Christian Stimming christ...@cstimming.de wrote: But back to your initial question: You said we occasionally encounter overflow errors. I don't understand (yet) what the actual problem is. With our current rational numbers and int64_t numerator we have

Re: Rethinking Numeric

2014-05-31 Thread John Ralls
On May 31, 2014, at 2:19 PM, Christian Stimming christ...@cstimming.de wrote: Am Sonntag, 25. Mai 2014, 07:34:14 schrieb John Ralls: If we've reached the point where our int64 rational numbers do not fit our problem requirements anymore, I'd rather look for a different number representation

Re: Python Bindings

2014-05-31 Thread John Ralls
On May 31, 2014, at 3:14 PM, Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com wrote: Ooops! I meant to send this to the list. Marc - All in all it sounds like it would be a lot more work that I am really up to at this time. Of course, learning Scheme/Guile is not really any better.

Re: Rethinking Numeric

2014-05-31 Thread John Ralls
On May 31, 2014, at 3:20 PM, Mike Alexander m...@umich.edu wrote: --On May 31, 2014 11:19:23 PM +0200 Christian Stimming christ...@cstimming.de wrote: But back to your initial question: You said we occasionally encounter overflow errors. I don't understand (yet) what the actual problem