Re: [GNC-dev] Help with Git repos and versioning

2023-04-16 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Ralf, AFAIK Derek found no time to update the build scripts. ~Frank Am 16.04.23 um 16:09 schrieb Ralf Zerres: Dear Developers, References to the branches in https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash#Documentation_for_Developers should be updated as well. Regards, Ralf

Re: [GNC-dev] Help with Git repos and versioning

2023-04-16 Thread john
We need Derek to update the documentation build scripts before we can change the wiki. Regards, John Ralls > On Apr 16, 2023, at 7:09 AM, Ralf Zerres wrote: > > Dear Developers, > > References to the branches in > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash#Documentation_for_Developers > > sho

Re: [GNC-dev] Help with Git repos and versioning

2023-04-16 Thread Ralf Zerres
Dear Developers, References to the branches in  https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash#Documentation_for_Developers should be updated as well. Regards, Ralf Am Sonntag, dem 16.04.2023 um 09:31 +0200 schrieb Geert Janssens: > Op zondag 16 april 2023 09:19:44 CEST schreef Kevin Buckley: > > On S

Re: [GNC-dev] Help with Git repos and versioning

2023-04-16 Thread Geert Janssens
Op zondag 16 april 2023 09:19:44 CEST schreef Kevin Buckley: > On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 at 14:50, David T. wrote: > > ... > > On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 at 14:56, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > ... > > and clearly I missed ALL of the mailing list mentions of the renames, > so cheers to you both for putting

Re: [GNC-dev] Help with Git repos and versioning

2023-04-16 Thread Kevin Buckley
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 at 14:50, David T. wrote: ... On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 at 14:56, Geert Janssens wrote: ... and clearly I missed ALL of the mailing list mentions of the renames, so cheers to you both for putting me right. Having said that, I'd assumed, on the back of seeing the merge of maint

Re: [GNC-dev] Help with Git repos and versioning

2023-04-15 Thread Geert Janssens
Hi Kevin, The version number mentioned in the README file is an oversight. I have just fixed it. Thanks for mentioning this. 'maint' was the old name we used for the stable branch. Starting with 5.0 we decided it would be more clear to use 'stable' as name for that branch as 'maint' was a bi

Re: [GNC-dev] Help with Git repos and versioning

2023-04-15 Thread David T. via gnucash-devel
I'm not an expert, but you might note the renaming of branches that was discussed here: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2022-November/046401.html And here: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2023-March/046599.html ⁣David T. ​ On Apr 16, 2023, 9:21 AM, at 9:21

[GNC-dev] Help with Git repos and versioning

2023-04-15 Thread Kevin Buckley
I have a directory, from within which I do the occassional git pull againstt the GnuCash GitHub repo. I just did one, and now see the following $ git remote -v origin https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git (fetch) origin https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git (push) $ git status -s -b ## stabl

Re: [GNC-dev] between help manual and guide

2022-08-07 Thread davidcousens49
Thanks Frank I will stick with taht Cheers David On Mon, 2022-08-08 at 00:28 +0200, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: > Hi David, > > we delayed real cross-linking until the conversion from ghelp: to help: > convention is done, which will reorder the directories and rename the > main

Re: [GNC-dev] between help manual and guide

2022-08-07 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi David, we delayed real cross-linking until the conversion from ghelp: to help: convention is done, which will reorder the directories and rename the main files. For now we are using https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-docs/blob/5c45dc7aa1c18f587b7178630a25c8ad42d662ed/docbook/gnc-docbookx.dtd

[GNC-dev] between help manual and guide

2022-08-07 Thread davidcousens49
I am trying to setup links between the Guide in the Help manual while doing a rewrite on Ch3 in the guide as a more general introduction to Importing and Exporting data more aimed more at general issues and the reasons for > Import in small chunks. > Assign the proper account while import

Re: [GNC-dev] Help: Menu Treev

2022-06-14 Thread D via gnucash-devel
My apologies to everyone. It seems my pocket has something to say on this topic. I only wish I knew what it was. Obviously it was very important, since it got said several times. David T. On Jun 14, 2022, 12:26, at 12:26, D via gnucash-devel wrote: >Hhvbblb v hhubhggvgghbvgmb > >On Jun 1

Re: [GNC-dev] Help: Menu Treev

2022-06-14 Thread D via gnucash-devel
Hhvbblb v hhubhggvgghbvgmb On Jun 14, 2022, 07:50, at 07:50, Ralf Zerres wrote: >Dear developers, > >with all that work in place for Co-Owner support, i still can't make it >to see the UI Menu-Entries. > >It must be something simple and stupid, but i don't get the clue. >All UI actions have b

Re: [GNC-dev] Help: Menu Treevb

2022-06-14 Thread D via gnucash-devel
Hhvbblb v hhubhggvgghbvgmb On Jun 14, 2022, 07:50, at 07:50, Ralf Zerres wrote: >Dear developers, > >with all that work in place for Co-Owner support, i still can't make it >to see the UI Menu-Entries. > >It must be something simple and stupid, but i don't get the clue. >All UI actions have b

Re: [GNC-dev] Help: Menu Treevb

2022-06-14 Thread D via gnucash-devel
Hhvbblb v hhubhggvgghbvgmb On Jun 14, 2022, 07:50, at 07:50, Ralf Zerres wrote: >Dear developers, > >with all that work in place for Co-Owner support, i still can't make it >to see the UI Menu-Entries. > >It must be something simple and stupid, but i don't get the clue. >All UI actions have b

Re: [GNC-dev] Help: Menu Treevb

2022-06-14 Thread D via gnucash-devel
Hhvbblb v hhubhggvgghbvgmb On Jun 14, 2022, 07:50, at 07:50, Ralf Zerres wrote: >Dear developers, > >with all that work in place for Co-Owner support, i still can't make it >to see the UI Menu-Entries. > >It must be something simple and stupid, but i don't get the clue. >All UI actions have b

[GNC-dev] Help: Menu Tree

2022-06-14 Thread Ralf Zerres
Dear developers, with all that work in place for Co-Owner support, i still can't make it to see the UI Menu-Entries. It must be something simple and stupid, but i don't get the clue. All UI actions have been defined, all xml-files adopted. I'm aware, that the business entries are added in a dyn

Re: [GNC-dev] [GNC] Reports: Help normalizing a list of gnc:monetary values

2021-04-01 Thread Evelyn Yamanaka
nc:monetary/ a b) > (/ (gnc:gnc-monetary-amount a) > (gnc:gnc-monetary-amount b))) > > This would do the trick. Afterwards, for the chart amounts you can use the > unit-less ratio directly. Do feel free to attach your work and we'll help you > complete it. > > On Mon, 29 Mar

Re: [GNC-dev] [GNC] Reports: Help normalizing a list of gnc:monetary values

2021-03-31 Thread Christopher Lam
On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 15:32, Evelyn Yamanaka wrote: > Thank you so much, Christopher! > You're welcome! So, the normalization / percentage representation is actually part of > a report I'm working on whose primary goal is to support some concept > of tagging / grouping for accounts that's inde

Re: [GNC-dev] [GNC] Reports: Help normalizing a list of gnc:monetary values

2021-03-29 Thread Christopher Lam
unit-less ratio directly. Do feel free to attach your work and we'll help you complete it. On Mon, 29 Mar 2021, 8:00 pm Evelyn Yamanaka, wrote: > I'm trying to create a stacked bar chart graph where the total for > each period on the x-axis is 100%, so you can easily see trends in

Re: [GNC-dev] Help documentation

2021-02-23 Thread Geert Janssens
ve so far is too complicated, I started looking at a few other projects to figure out how they manage their help. The hope is someone else has already solved this problem. I have only looked at a couple of projects so far. It may be disappointing that many of the mature projects out there h

Re: [GNC-dev] Help documentation (gtkbuilder part)

2021-02-17 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
em > into gnucash.pot. That's not to say it's perfect, there are surely issues > with keeping tooltips up to date and translated. It's just not the online > help manual issue. gettext can help in several ways: link to sources, optional comments, strings and finally thei

Re: [GNC-dev] Help documentation

2021-02-16 Thread John Ralls
oltips up to date and translated. It's just not the online help manual issue. I don't think that integrating the help into the GtkBuilder files is an option for two reasons: First, I think I'm the only one who edits them in a regular editor. Everyone else uses Glade and AFAIK it w

Re: [GNC-dev] Help documentation

2021-02-16 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 16.02.21 um 18:21 schrieb John Ralls: > The way we manage program help has four serious problems: > > 1. It's separate from the program--not even in the same git repository--so > changes to the program are seldom reflected in the help. Very little of it > has been to

[GNC-dev] Help documentation

2021-02-16 Thread John Ralls
The way we manage program help has four serious problems: 1. It's separate from the program--not even in the same git repository--so changes to the program are seldom reflected in the help. Very little of it has been touched in the last 10 years. 2. It's largely monolithic whic

Re: [GNC-dev] Book advertised on help manual online; YouTube channel and other social media.

2021-01-12 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Adrien, Am 12.01.21 um 18:09 schrieb Adrien Monteleone: > Perhaps if there were an official YouTube (or other) channel as part of > the Documentation, volunteers could craft and submit tutorials. I do > understand that is an entirely different project, and of course, is not > without moderation

Re: [GNC-dev] Book advertised on help manual online

2021-01-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I'll add: perhaps leave the link up as it is still a somewhat useful resource, and if the publisher/author contact falls through, or they are not interested in an updated edition, a message can be added to the website 'seeking' a talented technical author to write a new book? Someone on the li

Re: [GNC-dev] Book advertised on help manual online

2021-01-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I don't have a copy of the book, but most usually have a way to contact the author, and if not directly, then contacting the publisher would be the way to go. Regards, Adrien On 1/12/21 1:31 AM, David Cousens wrote: Liz, The book is available from booksellers like Booktopia online as well as

Re: [GNC-dev] Book advertised on help manual online

2021-01-11 Thread David Cousens
cash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=4&lang=C&doc=help > > I've just deflected a post to this list complaining that the link to > buy the book Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting is not sending this > person to somewhere they can actually buy the book. Disregarding why > Packt's site

Re: [GNC-dev] Book advertised on help manual online

2021-01-11 Thread Christian Stimming
gt;Note, they seem to differantiate by region/currency. > >Do you know am more recent book about Business Accounting with Gnucash? > >I do not know, how much we currently earn from them. > >Regards >Frank > >Am 11.01.21 um 22:51 schrieb Liz: >> https://gnucash.org/v

Re: [GNC-dev] Book advertised on help manual online

2021-01-11 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Accounting with Gnucash? I do not know, how much we currently earn from them. Regards Frank Am 11.01.21 um 22:51 schrieb Liz: > https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=4&lang=C&doc=help > > I've just deflected a post to this list complaining that the link to > buy the book G

[GNC-dev] Book advertised on help manual online

2021-01-11 Thread Liz
https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=4&lang=C&doc=help I've just deflected a post to this list complaining that the link to buy the book Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting is not sending this person to somewhere they can actually buy the book. Disregarding why Packt's site

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-06-01 Thread Christian Gruber
? That is the place, where the precompiled .go bytecode from the .scm files is stored. Thanks for this advise, I haven't tried this yet. Unfortunately it didn't help. Frank Am 28.05.20 um 17:42 schrieb Christian Gruber: Am 28.05.20 um 12:24 schrieb Frank H. Ellenberger: Hi, Am 28.05.2

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-06-01 Thread John Ralls
lenberger: >>>> Christian, >>>> >>>> did you clean ~/.cache/guile ? That is the place, where the precompiled >>>> .go bytecode from the .scm files is stored. >>> Thanks for this advise, I haven't tried this yet. Unfortunately it d

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-06-01 Thread Christian Gruber
this advise, I haven't tried this yet. Unfortunately it didn't help. Frank Am 28.05.20 um 17:42 schrieb Christian Gruber: Am 28.05.20 um 12:24 schrieb Frank H. Ellenberger: Hi, Am 28.05.20 um 08:13 schrieb Christian Gruber: I have to search for left *.go files, right? There are a lot i

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-30 Thread John Ralls
ed. > Thanks for this advise, I haven't tried this yet. Unfortunately it didn't > help. >> >> Frank >> >> Am 28.05.20 um 17:42 schrieb Christian Gruber: >>> Am 28.05.20 um 12:24 schrieb Frank H. Ellenberger: >>>> Hi, >>>> &g

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-30 Thread Geert Janssens
; > Thanks for this advise, I haven't tried this yet. Unfortunately it > didn't help. > > > Frank > > > > Am 28.05.20 um 17:42 schrieb Christian Gruber: > >> Am 28.05.20 um 12:24 schrieb Frank H. Ellenberger: > >>> Hi, > >>> >

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-30 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, I watched a similar issue yesterday, wich each call of ninja/make I got a bit further. So I suspect the dependencies between the guile modules are not properly declared leading to such errors, when building parallel. After several trials (and probably other things) suddenly it built again wit

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-30 Thread Mark
FYI, I just did a pull from git and tried to build maint and master as you suggested. Cleaned the guile cache first, clean build folder, cmake Debug build, etc. *Maint* built without any problems. *Master* got to about 32%, then failed, like so: ... Scanning dependencies of target gncmod-backend-db

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-30 Thread Christian Gruber
Am 27.05.20 um 02:49 schrieb David Cousens: Christian From memory I think that error occurs when you have a problem with the cmake relative addressing from the build directory to the gnucash source directory although that should be the same no matter whether you have the master or maint check

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-30 Thread Christian Gruber
Am 29.05.20 um 23:03 schrieb Geert Janssens: Op donderdag 28 mei 2020 08:13:14 CEST schreef Christian Gruber: > Am 28.05.20 um 06:31 schrieb John Ralls: > >> On May 27, 2020, at 2:15 PM, Christian Gruber > >> wrote:>> > >> Am 27.05.20 um 22:16 schrieb John Ralls: > On May 27, 2020, at

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-30 Thread Christian Gruber
Am 29.05.20 um 01:49 schrieb Frank H. Ellenberger: Christian, did you clean ~/.cache/guile ? That is the place, where the precompiled .go bytecode from the .scm files is stored. Thanks for this advise, I haven't tried this yet. Unfortunately it didn't help. Frank Am 28.05.2

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-29 Thread Geert Janssens
Op donderdag 28 mei 2020 08:13:14 CEST schreef Christian Gruber: > Am 28.05.20 um 06:31 schrieb John Ralls: > >> On May 27, 2020, at 2:15 PM, Christian Gruber > >> wrote:>> > >> Am 27.05.20 um 22:16 schrieb John Ralls: > On May 27, 2020, at 1:09 PM, Christian Gruber > wrote: > >>>

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-28 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Christian, did you clean ~/.cache/guile ? That is the place, where the precompiled .go bytecode from the .scm files is stored. Frank Am 28.05.20 um 17:42 schrieb Christian Gruber: > > Am 28.05.20 um 12:24 schrieb Frank H. Ellenberger: >> Hi, >> >> Am 28.05.20 um 08:13 schrieb Christian Gruber:

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-28 Thread Christian Gruber
Am 28.05.20 um 12:24 schrieb Frank H. Ellenberger: Hi, Am 28.05.20 um 08:13 schrieb Christian Gruber: I have to search for left *.go files, right? There are a lot in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile/2.2/ccache. Can I remove the complete directory without hesitation? The easier way is to uninst

[GNC-dev] Fwd: I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-28 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
forgot CC Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff: Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master Datum: Thu, 28 May 2020 12:24:47 +0200 Von: Frank H. Ellenberger An: Christian Gruber Hi, Am 28.05.20 um 08:13 schrieb Christian Gruber: > I have to search for left *.go fi

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-27 Thread Christian Gruber
Am 28.05.20 um 06:31 schrieb John Ralls: On May 27, 2020, at 2:15 PM, Christian Gruber wrote: Am 27.05.20 um 22:16 schrieb John Ralls: On May 27, 2020, at 1:09 PM, Christian Gruber wrote: Am 27.05.20 um 00:28 schrieb John Ralls: On May 26, 2020, at 1:34 PM, Christian Gruber wrote:

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-27 Thread John Ralls
> On May 27, 2020, at 2:15 PM, Christian Gruber > wrote: > > > Am 27.05.20 um 22:16 schrieb John Ralls: >> >>> On May 27, 2020, at 1:09 PM, Christian Gruber >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Am 27.05.20 um 00:28 schrieb John Ralls: > On May 26, 2020, at 1:34 PM, Christian Gruber > wrote:

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-27 Thread Christian Gruber
Am 27.05.20 um 22:16 schrieb John Ralls: On May 27, 2020, at 1:09 PM, Christian Gruber wrote: Am 27.05.20 um 00:28 schrieb John Ralls: On May 26, 2020, at 1:34 PM, Christian Gruber wrote: Hi, I tried to build GnuCash from master (currently fde6be6e0) for the first time. Before I alwa

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-27 Thread John Ralls
> On May 27, 2020, at 1:09 PM, Christian Gruber > wrote: > > > Am 27.05.20 um 00:28 schrieb John Ralls: >> >>> On May 26, 2020, at 1:34 PM, Christian Gruber >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I tried to build GnuCash from master (currently fde6be6e0) for the first >>> time. Before I always

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-27 Thread Christian Gruber
Am 27.05.20 um 00:28 schrieb John Ralls: On May 26, 2020, at 1:34 PM, Christian Gruber wrote: Hi, I tried to build GnuCash from master (currently fde6be6e0) for the first time. Before I always built from maint. I get a strange build error: Scanning dependencies of target scm-engine-2 [

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-26 Thread David Cousens
Christian >From memory I think that error occurs when you have a problem with the cmake relative addressing from the build directory to the gnucash source directory although that should be the same no matter whether you have the master or maint checked out with git. David Cousens - David C

Re: [GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-26 Thread John Ralls
> On May 26, 2020, at 1:34 PM, Christian Gruber > wrote: > > Hi, > > I tried to build GnuCash from master (currently fde6be6e0) for the first > time. Before I always built from maint. > > I get a strange build error: > > Scanning dependencies of target scm-engine-2 > [ 30%] Generating > .

[GNC-dev] I need help building GnuCash on master

2020-05-26 Thread Christian Gruber
Hi, I tried to build GnuCash from master (currently fde6be6e0) for the first time. Before I always built from maint. I get a strange build error: Scanning dependencies of target scm-engine-2 [ 30%] Generating ../../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile/2.2/site-ccache/gnucash/utilities.go Backtrace: In

[GNC-dev] Improve Help

2020-05-07 Thread flywire
Floating this as a probable bug as the submenus seem a bit random for new users. Current help options are: Tutorial and Concepts Guide, Tips Of The Day, Contents, and About. https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2020-May/091062.html > Remember that the GnuCash "cultur

Re: [GNC-dev] Not getting signal, need a bit of help

2020-04-28 Thread jean
27;m not getting the response callback when I close the matcher with either OK or Cancel. Am I missing something obvious? Any help greatly appreciated. I've pushed what I have (temporarily) to add_reconcile_after_ofx_import_master (you can find it in the PRs) if you want to look at more code

Re: [GNC-dev] Not getting signal, need a bit of help

2020-04-28 Thread John Ralls
response callback when I close the > matcher with either OK or Cancel. Am I missing something obvious? > Any help greatly appreciated. I've pushed what I have (temporarily) to > add_reconcile_after_ofx_import_master (you can find it in the PRs) if you > want to look at more code.

[GNC-dev] Not getting signal, need a bit of help

2020-04-28 Thread jeanl
BJECT (gnc_ofx_importer_gui), "response", G_CALLBACK (gnc_ofx_match_done), &info); gnc_gen_trans_list_show_all (gnc_ofx_importer_gui); But it appears I'm not getting the response callback when I close the matcher with either OK or Cancel. Am I missing something obvious? Any help g

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-11-03 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 11/2/19 10:02 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote: > On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 9:54 PM Tommy Trussell > mailto:tommy.truss...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I finally jumped through the hoops and uploaded my backported > package of GnuCash 3.7 to my own launchpad PPA. > > ...  > > ... if anyone still want

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-11-02 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 9:54 PM Tommy Trussell wrote: > I finally jumped through the hoops and uploaded my backported package of > GnuCash 3.7 to my own launchpad PPA. > ... > ... if anyone still wants a pre-built version for Bionic or Mint or any > other Ubuntu Bionic-derived distro, here it is,

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-11-01 Thread Tommy Trussell
I finally jumped through the hoops and uploaded my backported package of GnuCash 3.7 to my own launchpad PPA. Several other folks have done it, but I wanted to follow the backport rules and hopefully demonstrate I had made only minimal changes to the upload. (Though I am beginning to think it prob

Re: [GNC-dev] Fwd: Re: Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-10-19 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 11:33 PM Andre Joost wrote: > > BTW there are already PPAs with Gnucash 3.7 available: > https://launchpad.net/~sicklylife/+archive/ubuntu/gnucash > https://launchpad.net/~ingo/+archive/ubuntu/gnucash/ > > Thank you greatly. I will point to those and another in the bug rep

[GNC-dev] Fwd: Re: Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-10-18 Thread Andre Joost
Am 18.10.19 um 19:49 schrieb Stephen M. Butler: On 10/18/19 9:17 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 11:10 AM Stephen M. Butler mailto:kg...@arrl.net>> wrote: On 10/17/19 2:44 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote: > My NEXT step (to "sweeten" the backport request) is to upload the

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-10-18 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 10/18/19 9:17 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 11:10 AM Stephen M. Butler > wrote: > > On 10/17/19 2:44 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > My NEXT step (to "sweeten" the backport request) is to upload the > > patched file to a PPA but (in my

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-10-18 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 11:10 AM Stephen M. Butler wrote: > On 10/17/19 2:44 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > My NEXT step (to "sweeten" the backport request) is to upload the > > patched file to a PPA but (in my usual very slow style) I am still > > puzzling out how to sign the packages. I have a p

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-10-18 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 10/17/19 2:44 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote: > My NEXT step (to "sweeten" the backport request) is to upload the > patched file to a PPA but (in my usual very slow style) I am still > puzzling out how to sign the packages. I have a published key I > created years ago but apparently I'm missing some (

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-10-17 Thread Tommy Trussell
My NEXT step (to "sweeten" the backport request) is to upload the patched file to a PPA but (in my usual very slow style) I am still puzzling out how to sign the packages. I have a published key I created years ago but apparently I'm missing some (literal) key concepts. :-P On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-10-17 Thread Stephen M. Butler
Thanks Tommy for this info.  I've been slammed the last couple of weeks.  Hopefully will be able to look at this next week.  --Steve On 10/9/19 9:32 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote: > Here's a tested working procedure for building and installing GnuCash > under Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 LTS. I presume it shoul

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-10-09 Thread Tommy Trussell
I requested a backport of GnuCash 3.7 from Ubuntu eoan 19.10 to bionic 18.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bionic-backports/+bug/1847547 UNFORTUNATELY I still don't understand why I cannot get the eoan package to build in an sbuild bionic chroot with bionic-backports. I also cannot get the eoan gnuc

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-10-09 Thread Tommy Trussell
Here's a tested working procedure for building and installing GnuCash under Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 LTS. I presume it should also work with Mint or any other distro based on Bionic. REQUIREMENTS An Ubuntu Bionic installation *with bionic-backports activated. (I used a minimal Xubuntu installation in a

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-10-02 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 4:15 PM Stephen M. Butler wrote: > Sorry for the delayed response. Other irons were getting too hot in the > fire and my focus has been elsewhere. I did make it this far (and > reloading locales-all and vim to the environment). I'm trying to follow > https://wiki.ubuntu.

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-10-01 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 9/30/19 12:39 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote: > I woke up with one realization this morning -- sbuild was not picking > up the changed packages from backports etc. because it's probably set > to prefer anything that's already loaded into it (remember "normally" > it grabs fresh packages EVERY TIME you

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-09-30 Thread Tommy Trussell
I woke up with one realization this morning -- sbuild was not picking up the changed packages from backports etc. because it's probably set to prefer anything that's already loaded into it (remember "normally" it grabs fresh packages EVERY TIME you build, but I got impatient weeks ago and pre-loade

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-09-29 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 11:46 AM Stephen M. Butler wrote: > On 9/28/19 9:46 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > Stephen -- I got a reply on the Repositories and Backports forum: > > https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2427539 > > > ... > > Then you can update apt in the chroot to see that the bac

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-09-29 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 9/28/19 9:46 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote: > Stephen -- I got a reply on the Repositories and Backports forum: > https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2427539 > > SO this person said we should be using the Backports repository. That > changes all the rules! I added a follow-up question. > > In c

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-09-28 Thread Tommy Trussell
there was a typo in my little procedure. I tried it the first way and it didn't work, but this way works: Create a new file for sources.list in the chroot having two lines $ sbuild-shell bionic-amd64 $ su password: # cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ # cat > bionic-backports.list [paste the following

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-09-28 Thread Tommy Trussell
Stephen -- I got a reply on the Repositories and Backports forum: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2427539 SO this person said we should be using the Backports repository. That changes all the rules! I added a follow-up question. In case you don't know, Backports is a special standard re

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-09-24 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 9/24/19 1:07 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 1:13 PM Stephen M. Butler > wrote: > > On 9/23/19 10:24 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > I followed Stephen Butler's work on the GnuCash lists and hoped his > > packaging procedure could produce cle

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-09-24 Thread Tommy Trussell
ess happens in a chroot environment.) The schroot utilities are handy for poking around and running processes inside chroot filesystems as if an "ordinary" user. Again these seem to be pretty refined and I think the same utilities probably work the same for pbuilder or sbuild chroots, t

Re: [GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-09-24 Thread Stephen M. Butler
ck of trying but my feeble efforts have been fruitless so far. I tried the Docker approach but ran out of disk space!  I do have schroot on my plate but that hasn't born fruit yet. What do you need from me to help you build on Bionic?  I'm able to build on Disco.  Have you been able to fig

[GNC-dev] Help packaging GnuCash 3.x for Ubuntu Bionic

2019-09-23 Thread Tommy Trussell
In between other projects over a few months I have been trying to learn enough about Debian packaging to bring the latest GnuCash releases to Ubuntu Bionic. My goal is to learn to create a source package that compiles properly in a "stock" Ubuntu Bionic environment, and write about the procedure in

Re: [GNC-dev] Need help - several tests fail

2019-08-27 Thread Geert Janssens
Op maandag 26 augustus 2019 12:40:31 CEST schreef Geert Janssens: > Op zondag 25 augustus 2019 17:43:31 CEST schreef John Ralls: > > > On Aug 25, 2019, at 3:39 AM, Christian Gruber > > > I fixed the problem. It is a missing build dependency. I did only call > > > "make check" directly after generat

Re: [GNC-dev] Need help - several tests fail

2019-08-26 Thread Geert Janssens
led to this situation. I couldn't > >>>> reproduce > >>>> this again. > >>>> > >>>> Next problem is that still several tests fail with the following > >>>> output: > >>>> > >>>> ERROR: no code

Re: [GNC-dev] Need help - several tests fail

2019-08-25 Thread John Ralls
sts fail with the following output: >>>> >>>> ERROR: no code for module (gnucash engine test srfi64-extras) >>> Which means that they're not finding >>> libgnucash/engine/test/srfi64-extras.scm or perhaps srfi64-extras.go Can >>> you figure ou

Re: [GNC-dev] Need help - several tests fail

2019-08-25 Thread Christian Gruber
ure out why? It might help to run make with VERBOSE=1 so that the whole command is printed for each step or to switch to ninja which dumps any failed commands without being asked and is also about 10x faster than make. Regards, John Ralls It can also be an as of yet undiscovered build dependen

Re: [GNC-dev] Need help - several tests fail

2019-08-22 Thread Geert Janssens
gine/test/srfi64-extras.scm or perhaps srfi64-extras.go Can > you figure out why? It might help to run make with VERBOSE=1 so that the > whole command is printed for each step or to switch to ninja which dumps > any failed commands without being asked and is also about 10x faster than > m

Re: [GNC-dev] Need help - several tests fail

2019-08-21 Thread John Ralls
hat still several tests fail with the following output: > > ERROR: no code for module (gnucash engine test srfi64-extras) > Which means that they're not finding libgnucash/engine/test/srfi64-extras.scm or perhaps srfi64-extras.go Can you figure out why? It might help to run make with

Re: [GNC-dev] Need help - several tests fail

2019-08-21 Thread Christian Gruber
Am 19.08.19 um 00:54 schrieb John Ralls: On Aug 18, 2019, at 1:20 PM, Christian Gruber wrote: Hi, Since I'm new to GnuCash development, I still need some help getting everything running. Several tests currently fail on my platform: 1 - test-exp-parser (Failed) 2 - test

Re: [GNC-dev] Need help - several tests fail

2019-08-18 Thread John Ralls
> On Aug 18, 2019, at 1:20 PM, Christian Gruber > wrote: > > Hi, > > Since I'm new to GnuCash development, I still need some help getting > everything running. Several tests currently fail on my platform: > > 1 - test-exp-parser (Failed) > 2 -

[GNC-dev] Need help - several tests fail

2019-08-18 Thread Christian Gruber
Hi, Since I'm new to GnuCash development, I still need some help getting everything running. Several tests currently fail on my platform:       1 - test-exp-parser (Failed)       2 - test-link-module-app-utils (Failed)       4 - test-scm-query-string (Failed)       8 - test-date-util

Re: [GNC-dev] A non-techie in need of help

2019-07-31 Thread Liz
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 23:23:15 -0400 "Ellen S. Dunlap" wrote: > I'm a long-time satisfied Gnucash user, but have hit a technical snag > that is far beyond my ability to understand or remediate. Please join the gnucash-user list because that is the appropriate list for your query. Liz Moderator __

Re: [GNC-dev] A non-techie in need of help

2019-07-30 Thread David H
Hi Ellen, I wonder if you are encountering the same issue I had when updating Win 10 Pro from version 1809 to 1903. My old Lenovo laptop circa 2010 was originally running Win 7 Enterprise which I updated to Win 10 Pro when Microsoft were offering the free upgrade to Win 10. Not long ago I had a

Re: [GNC-dev] A non-techie in need of help

2019-07-30 Thread David Cousens
Ellen, The cure for this is usually to use File->Open from the menu, navigate to where your data file is located, i.e. your Desktop,and open the file from the dialog. If you then save it once GnuCash is open.Hopefully Gnucash then will remember the location next time it is opened. The other way

Re: [GNC-dev] A non-techie in need of help

2019-07-30 Thread Mechtilde
Hello Am 31.07.19 um 05:23 schrieb Ellen S. Dunlap: > > I keep my Gnucash files on my desktop (and also backup to the cloud), You have your accounting data on a foreign computer from other peoples? Kind regards -- Mechtilde Stehmann ## Apache OpenOffice ## Freie Office Suite für Linux, MacO

[GNC-dev] A non-techie in need of help

2019-07-30 Thread Ellen S. Dunlap
I'm a long-time satisfied Gnucash user, but have hit a technical snag that is far beyond my ability to understand or remediate. I am using Gnucash 3.5+ (2019-03-30) and recently upgraded my Win10Pro to version 1903. After the upgrade, when I open Gnucash I get a popup telling me my current Gnucas

Re: [GNC-dev] Help manual improvements

2019-01-30 Thread David T. via gnucash-devel
two line view.  However, this is not > mentioned in the help manual under the F1 key.  In fact, all I could find > was the mention under the Account Register Transactions Menu section > Associate File With Transaction and Associate Location with Transaction > descriptions do not tell how

Re: [GNC-dev] Help manual improvements

2019-01-30 Thread David Carlson
rst link from a transaction entry to an external file > and I discovered that there is a symbol "w" shown in the A box to the right > of the Notes field, at least in the two line view. However, this is not > mentioned in the help manual under the F1 key. In fact, all I could find &

[GNC-dev] Help manual improvements

2019-01-30 Thread David Carlson
I just created my first link from a transaction entry to an external file and I discovered that there is a symbol "w" shown in the A box to the right of the Notes field, at least in the two line view. However, this is not mentioned in the help manual under the F1 key. In fact, all I

Re: [GNC-dev] help

2019-01-27 Thread Mike Donovan
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Re: [GNC-dev] Docs under Linux; was: GNOME Template in Guide but not Help

2018-09-08 Thread John Ralls
d John mentioned before >>> in another thread, almost our whole docs build system was unmaintained >>> for over a decade. >>> >>> In Gnome 2 this templates were replaced by the GNOME Documentation Build >>> Utilities (GDU). See my "research" in

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