Re: Scope of GNUCash

2018-02-16 Thread Matt Graham
bother with clearing balances; for me reconciled balances are sufficient. Subaccounts will have an unfortunate consequence of being real transactions in real accounts, which will calculate real balances, need to match real bank statements, affect real reports. On 14/02/18 12:46, Matt Graham wrote: > Not

Re: Scope of GNUCash

2018-02-16 Thread Matt Graham
ject: Re: Scope of GNUCash On 14/02/2018 04:46, Matt Graham wrote: > Not sure why you think I’m one of the “demanding” people... I’m not actually > asking for anything – I’m trying to figure out how this all works, what I > really need, and how I can contribute to make it happen I do

RE: Scope of GNUCash

2018-02-13 Thread Matt Graham
Matt From: Wm via gnucash-devel<mailto:gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> Sent: Wednesday, 14 February 2018 11:35 AM To: gnucash-de...@lists.gnucash.org<mailto:gnucash-de...@lists.gnucash.org> Subject: Re: Scope of GNUCash On 13/02/2018 21:53, Matt Graham wrote: >  I think I would love

RE: Scope of GNUCash

2018-02-13 Thread Matt Graham
 I think I would love to sit down in a pub with the three of you (Wm, Adrien, and Mike). I think we could have such awesome semi-drunken discussions about the nature of life, the universe and everything! I think you have basically answered my question, and I think we all basically agree on

Scope of GNUCash

2018-02-12 Thread Matt Graham
>IIRC the discussion at the time was about whether gnc should or could be used >for trading. the result was "no" A couple of times I have noticed that people have said "That's not what GNUCash is for". It begs the question - where is it defined what GNUCash is and isn't for? The charter for

RE: Future allocated money, aka Envelope Budgeting

2018-02-04 Thread Matt Graham
ash-de...@lists.gnucash.org<mailto:gnucash-de...@lists.gnucash.org> Subject: Re: Future allocated money, aka Envelope Budgeting On 03/02/2018 00:12, Matt Graham wrote: > Wow! That become contentious quick!!! Only sort of. If you read the devel list before the user list you get a feeling

RE: Future allocated money, aka Envelope Budgeting

2018-02-02 Thread Matt Graham
Wow! That become contentious quick!!! The primary issue I’m seeing here is one of philosophy. What is GNUCash for? What is the purpose? What “should” be included and what “shouldn’t” be? As has been highlighted, when someone loads up software they have a preset notion in their own mind of how

Re: Future allocated money, aka Envelope Budgeting

2018-01-31 Thread Matt Graham
ould help tremendously paired with the sub-account method outlined in the user thread. I think template transactions are already an enhancement request, so there are other use cases for this feature. The most prominent I can think of is payroll. Regards, Adrien > > On 31/01/18 15:59, David T.

Re: On development/release processes and version numbers

2018-01-25 Thread Matt Graham
As a Noob following this with interest: 1. If a platform makes a decision that breaks a previous stable version, it could be a case if create a quick fix branch off that version tag, and release an extra ".1". So 2.6.1 would become 2.6.1.1. Note that I am assuming that this is rare and that

Re: Budgets Wiki Page

2015-12-31 Thread Matt Graham
I can't do it! Fair Winds, and happy new year! Matt /|\ John Ralls wrote > On Dec 31, 2015, at 3:15 PM, Matt Graham <matt_graham2...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks John! Greatly appreciated. Unfortunately I don't have privileges to > create new pages. This is weird, b

Re: Budgets Wiki Page

2015-12-31 Thread Matt Graham
Thanks John! Greatly appreciated. Unfortunately I don't have privileges to create new pages. This is weird, because when I read the MediaWiki 'help' section (something I should have done before initially posting... sorry...) it seems to indicate that all users should have the ability to edit

Budgets Wiki Page

2015-12-30 Thread Matt Graham
G’day Devs, Not sure if this is the right place to ask this. Does anyone know how I request new wiki pages be created on wiki.gnucash.org? The ‘Requirements for Gnucash Budgets’ section of the Budgets page http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Budgets really should be split from the rest of the page

Re: Cutecash Compiling

2015-12-24 Thread Matt Graham
ing this (especially since I have no understanding or experience with cmake or qt). Thanks for your help! Cheers, Matt G On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 22:25 -0800, John Ralls wrote: > > On Dec 23, 2015, at 9:28 PM, Matt Graham < > > matt_graham2...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > G

Recommendations on Coding programs

2015-10-17 Thread Matt Graham
G’day all, Now that I finally have myself set up to be able to view, edit and test the gnucash sources, I have come across the limitation of using text editors (using nano at the moment...) to code. Can anyone recommend a good program for doing coding for Gnucash? I’m mainly looking at the C

Maint branch minor issues - file bugs?

2015-10-15 Thread Matt Graham
G’day All, Found an unterminated comment in git maint branch that prevented my compiling. Offending file was /src/register/register-gnome/gnucash-sheetP.h. Basically someone put “/@” rather than “@ */”. Because it is on a git working branch (rather than a released version) should I be filing a

Re: Make fail - No rule to make target COPYING

2015-10-11 Thread Matt Graham
, Matt From: Matt Graham Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 4:14 PM To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Make fail - No rule to make target COPYING G’day all, I’m a bit of a noob, so please bear with me. I’m trying to compile gnucash directly from the git sources. Since I work on Gentoo, I’ve been

Make fail - No rule to make target COPYING

2015-10-10 Thread Matt Graham
? Thanks and regards, Matt Graham /|\ P.s. If it helps, my ebuild is on my public gentoo repository, cloneable from https://github.com/mattig7/MattsPackages.git I’m using version 2.6.8 – ignore the other ones, haven’t fixed lots of issues with them yet. Just realised that I should have changed

RE: Doxygen Generated Code - High level structure

2015-09-14 Thread Matt Graham
From: John Ralls Sent: Friday, 11 September 2015 12:40 PM To: Matt Graham Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Re: Doxygen Generated Code - High level structure > On Sep 10, 2015, at 7:03 PM, Matt Graham <matt_graham2...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > G’day All, > >

Doxygen Generated Code - High level structure

2015-09-10 Thread Matt Graham
G’day All, I’ve been monitoring this list and trying to learn the structure of GNUCash code for about 4 months now. I’m a bit of a noob, so it is slow going. I believe that code documentation (i.e. the Doxygen generated stuff) should allow someone like me to quickly gain a grasp of how

Re: Doxygen Warnings

2015-09-01 Thread Matt Graham
Thanks John, I'm running doxygen directly on the src directory of the code. Windows 8.1 at the moment. I'm travelling for work at the moment, when I get home over the weekend I'll try it on my gentoo box too Cheers, Matt /|\ John Ralls wrote > On Sep 1, 2015, at 2:04 AM, M

Doxygen Warnings

2015-09-01 Thread Matt Graham
under “Doxygen Overviews” has been created successfully. Has anyone else generated the documentation from the current source and have you had a similar problem? Thanks and regards, Matt Graham ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org

Re: Doxygen Code Documentation

2015-09-01 Thread Matt Graham
, but it probably wont be for a few days. I like Derek's idea of commenting blocks of code, but I'll probably only do this for areas that look really hard to understand (and probably more for myself than for submission). Thanks and regards, Matt Graham From: Derek Atkins Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎1‎

Doxygen Code Documentation

2015-08-31 Thread Matt Graham
, or is this an area where I can (and should) help out by submitting a bug report and developing a patch? Keep up the good work all! Matt Graham ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash

How are Budgets Implemented in GNU Cash

2015-07-16 Thread Matt Graham
I would like to contribute to GNUCash, and get into the development side of the house. I figure that a (relatively) quick and easy contribution (that will also help me personally) is for me to create a patch to correct the bug where budgeted expenses don’t show up in the summary section at the