Re: Release of GnuCash stable version 1.8.9 && gnucash-docs-1.8.4 problems

2004-04-13 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 21:02, Chris Lyttle wrote: > On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 11:53, Stewart V. Wright wrote: > > G'day Derek, > > > > * Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040413 19:14]: > > > > > rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/gnucash-1.8.9-1.RH9.i

Re: Release of GnuCash stable version 1.8.9 && gnucash-docs-1.8.4 problems

2004-04-13 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 11:53, Stewart V. Wright wrote: > G'day Derek, > > * Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040413 19:14]: > > > > rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/gnucash-1.8.9-1.RH9.i386.rpm > > > install-info: warning: no info dir entry in > > > `/usr/share/info/gnucash-design.info.gz' >

Release of GnuCash stable version 1.8.9

2004-04-12 Thread Chris Lyttle
What's New in GnuCash 1.8.9? o Updated Polish translation by GNOME PL Team, updated French, Czech, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, German and Italian translations. o dump-finance-quote - Be more explicit when a lookup fails. o log-replay - Increase read buffer size. o Make sure to verify that the

Re: Links to archives at http://www.gnucash.org/en/lists.phtml are wrong

2004-04-06 Thread Chris Lyttle
Done Chris On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 14:47, Derek Atkins wrote: > On the gnucash website, links to the email archives from the > lists page (http://www.gnucash.org/en/lists.phtml) are all > wrong. The archives links all say "www.gnucash.org" and > should be replaced with "lists.gnucash.org". Otherw

Re: Add FAQ link to gnucash.org menu?

2004-04-03 Thread Chris Lyttle
Done Chris On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 19:21, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone add a link to the FAQ in the gnucash.org menu? > The link should be: > > http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashFrequentlyAskedQuestions > > Thanks, > > -derek -- RedHat Certified Engineer #8073025494054

Re: cannot make gnucash-docs-1.8.2/1.8.3

2004-04-01 Thread Chris Lyttle
We do. This problem is unfortunately not one we can easily fix as its due to the crappy way debian chooses to setup their support for docbook xml. Its been an ongoing problem, discussed and never resolved in the debian bugzilla for a couple of years now. Chris On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 07:45, Derek A

New 1.8 release?

2004-03-26 Thread Chris Lyttle
Hi all, What with some of the recent bugfixing by Josh in SX's and now that I look at the changelog since last release there seems to be a bunch of other stuff. So what do you all think, do a new release of the 1.8 code? I also wish to release a docs package update. I think that the 11th April (2

Re: problem in the helpfile

2004-03-25 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 16:20, ZENODotus wrote: > " > The next screen allows you to select the default currency to use for your > accounts. The Select... button on this screen is used to access the list of > currencies. The Select... button brings up the Select currency/security > dialog. > > Th

Did I miss this (donations)?

2004-03-23 Thread Chris Lyttle
Have we been contacted by these folks? Chris Announcement: DistroWatch to offer financial assistance to Free Software projects DistroWatch is proud to announce an initiative to offer financial assistance to Free Software projects. The extent of this assistance will be set to 10% of DistroWatch's

Re: translator

2004-03-21 Thread Chris Lyttle
Yes please do that Samuel. Go to the gnucash web pages and sign up at the following url for the -devel list; http://lists.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel I am the GnuCash docs project leader, you can initially submit patches to me until we can arrange commit access to cvs. I wil

Proposal to move cvs and mailing lists

2004-02-01 Thread Chris Lyttle
mailing lists and cvs, I welcome any feedback on it. Chris Lyttle -- RedHat Certified Engineer #807302549405490. Checkpoint Certified Security Expert 2000 & NG |^| | | |^| | |^| | | Life out here is raw | | |^| | Bu

Re: Alternate mail archive reminder (was: What happen to this forum?)

2004-02-01 Thread Chris Lyttle
I've also put a news item about this on the GnuCash homepage. Should cut down future queries. Chris On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 09:10, Benoit Grégoire wrote: > On Thursday 22 January 2004 08:40, John Reynolds wrote: > > There seems to be problem with the server that hosts the mail list, so > > the arch

Re: Archive not there

2004-02-01 Thread Chris Lyttle
Yes, try this one; gnucash-user: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.user gnucash-devel: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.devel gnucash-de: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.german On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 13:34, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hell

Re: gnucash on os/x, thinking of a native port to aqua/cocoa

2004-02-01 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 09:49, Timothy Reaves wrote: > On Jan 29, 2004, at 9:12 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > No offense, but are you really so deluded that you think that is all > that is required to get gnucash running? If it were only so simple! > With all of the broken dependencies, all

Re: Addition to Gnucash docu (fwd)

2004-02-01 Thread Chris Lyttle
t; > Thank you for the patch and work on this. > > > > > > Jon Lapham or Chris Lyttle, > > > Will you take care of this? > > > > Did I miss an email that has the patches and images? This message was > > patch-less and image-less. > > Mmmh - I c

Re: Donations (again)

2004-01-13 Thread Chris Lyttle
Actually, as I have been Finance director of a non-profit organization for the last year, I have to agree with what Carl says here. There is 'stuff that _has_ to be done' for donations. In my mind this is what has prevented the GnuCash project setting up this sort of thing before. We basically sett

Re: Donations (again)

2004-01-12 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 07:16, Derek Atkins wrote: > Another option is that we can just remove their "project admin" status > now. We can keep them on as project developers with whatever other > priviledges they've got at SF > > Comments? > I think that's a reasonable thing to do. I'll remov

Re: Donations (again)

2004-01-12 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 20:37, Derek Atkins wrote: > Benoit Grégoire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Rob Walker biffhero[Email] [Profile] > > Who is Rob Walker? Good question, I thought at first he was rlb. Perhaps some developer that worked on GnuCash some time ago? > > Jeremy Collins

Re: Request for Comments: new QIF Importer

2004-01-08 Thread Chris Lyttle
Warlord: QUESTION: If the user provides multiple files at once and each file has internal ambiguities (e.g. the date format), should the user be asked for each file, or can we assume that all the files have the same format? Perhaps the UI should allow the user to "make this choice for all files"?

Release of GnuCash stable version 1.8.8

2003-11-18 Thread Chris Lyttle
What's New in GnuCash 1.8.8? o HBCI - Improve error message when receiving zero balance from bank. o Add account template for Swiss German businesses "KMU" by Tom Winterhalder o Add *big* account template for German businesses "SKR04" by Betina Schmidt o Add Catalan and Turkish translati

Re: GNC v1.8.8 documentation

2003-11-16 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 04:34, Christian Stimming wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Sonntag, 16. November 2003 13:19, Jon Lapham wrote: > > If we want to sync the upcoming GNC v1.8.8 release with the current > > state of the documentation, please apply this update to > > help-topics

Re: gnucash-1.8.8 to appear ASAP?

2003-11-15 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 07:36, Derek Atkins wrote: > Damn -- I still haven't had the chance to apply that Report patch sent > in a month ago And I dont know if I'm going to get to that today > (I'm in Minneapolis this morning, I lose my network in a few hours, > and then I step onto a plane). >

Re: Draft, State of the GnuCash project, part II: What can you do to help?

2003-11-13 Thread Chris Lyttle
d official maintainer) > - Mandrake (Need official maintainer, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > - MacOS X (Need official maintainer, contact ?) > - Debian (Need help fixing compile problems on some architecture, contact ) > Skills: The conventions of the distribution's packaging system

Re: gnucash-1.8.8 to appear ASAP?

2003-11-13 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 08:39, Christian Stimming wrote: > Did something happen with the planned 1.8.8 release? I thought the last > messages implied it should appear sometime around November 2nd, but obviously > it didn't. I would kindly ask to have a 1.8.8 release now as soon as > possible. Peo

Re: How about gnucash-1.8.8 soon?

2003-10-18 Thread Chris Lyttle
25/26th are totally out for me for a release date, I've got a conference to attend that weekend, next one after that is fine though. Chris -- RedHat Certified Engineer #807302549405490. Checkpoint Certified Security Expert 2000 & NG |^|

Re: Probs compiling gnucash-gnome2

2003-09-19 Thread Chris Lyttle
On 18 Sep 2003, David Hampton wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 21:32, Chris Lyttle wrote: > > Attempted to compile the g2 version tonight and ran into this error, any > > ideas? > > > > dialog-utils.c: In function `gnc_glade_autoconnect_full_func': > > dial

Probs compiling gnucash-gnome2

2003-09-18 Thread Chris Lyttle
Hey all, Attempted to compile the g2 version tonight and ran into this error, any ideas? dialog-utils.c: In function `gnc_glade_autoconnect_full_func': dialog-utils.c:990: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules make[5]: *** [dialog-utils.lo] Error 1 make[5]: L

Release of GnuCash stable version 1.8.7

2003-09-14 Thread Chris Lyttle
What's New in GnuCash 1.8.7? o Use instead of "libofx/libofx.h" as it's not part of our system. Fixes a dependency problem in 1.8.6 release. o Small fix from hawkfan to get tests to work when building outside srcdir. o Fix a bug introduced by Matthew -- ANSI C does not allow you to decla

Re: Release of GnuCash stable version 1.8.6

2003-09-12 Thread Chris Lyttle
Due to an oversight on my part. Its now on the ftp site, I'll be making rpms this weekend. Chris On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 07:51, Derek Atkins wrote: > Actually, it does not appear to be available, yet... > > -derek > > Chris Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > &g

[Fwd: Re: ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 1.8.6]

2003-09-12 Thread Chris Lyttle
-Forwarded Message- From: Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Chris Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 1.8.6 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:28:45 +1000 > GnuCash 1.8.6 It's wonderful to see GnuCash still rocking on. I know heaps of people here in .a

Release of GnuCash stable version 1.8.6

2003-09-11 Thread Chris Lyttle
What's New in GnuCash 1.8.6? o Updated Spanish, Greek, French, Czech, Slovak, o Fixed extremely stupid bug in the import value setting workaround. o Fixed problem with SX formula_cell calls o Merge missing part of 2003-05-28 commit. The log format changes didn't get commited for some reaso

Re: Concept Guide filenames

2003-09-10 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 01:21, Jon Lapham wrote: > I am proposing to rename them using the "section name consistent" [1] > nomenclature: > > chapter1.xml -> chapter_oview.xml > chapter2.xml -> chapter_basics.xml > ... > chapter14.xml -> chapter_bus_pay.xml > This is fine by me. I only named them

Re: GnuCash 1.8.6 bugfix and translation release?

2003-09-08 Thread Chris Lyttle
This is fine by me except I'd have to do it on Sat 13th as I'm busy Sunday. Chris - Original Message - From: "Christian Stimming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Benoit Grégoire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Frederic Crozat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 1

Re: Gentoo .ebuild script with Gnucash release?

2003-09-03 Thread Chris Lyttle
As I was the one who posted 1.8.5 to the gentoo database, I'll comment on this. I don't believe there is any need to maintain a gentoo ebuild in gnucash itself. Its really just a duplication of effort and it very well maintained within gentoo itself. Gentoo is never more than a few days behind a re

Re: Spam

2003-09-03 Thread Chris Lyttle
ue to get the same volume, just marked as spam. Chris On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 12:37, Linas Vepstas wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 05:04:27PM -0700, Chris Lyttle was heard to remark: > > Linas, > > > > We seem to have lost the spam filter on the mailing lists. Since the

Re: Release of GnuCash Docs version 1.8.3

2003-09-02 Thread Chris Lyttle
Its part of gnucash-guide.xml. I just forgot to update it for the last couple of releases. Chris On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 18:33, Jon Lapham wrote: > Chris Lyttle wrote: > > Good catch, can you file a bug in bugzilla.gnome.org? > > How is this section written? Manually or is there

Spam

2003-09-02 Thread Chris Lyttle
Linas, We seem to have lost the spam filter on the mailing lists. Since the sobig worm hit there's literally hundreds of spam messages with the subject lines of this worm, and it takes ages to do through and click 'discard' from the mailing list admin tree for each one of the spam messages. Could

Re: Release of GnuCash Docs version 1.8.3

2003-09-01 Thread Chris Lyttle
Good catch, can you file a bug in bugzilla.gnome.org? Chris On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 12:42, Stewart V. Wright wrote: > Hi Chris and Jon, > > Not sure if this is particularly important, but on the "About this > document" page in the latest docs release the History section only > lists up to release

Release of GnuCash Docs version 1.8.3

2003-09-01 Thread Chris Lyttle
What's New in GnuCash Docs 1.8.3? o Fix xmllint errors o Add new credit card chapter images o Remove unused images o Updates to guide o Michael Rensing's FAQ updates o Fix reconcile column in cc payment image Available at the usual places! http://www.gnucash.org http://download.sourceforge.net/

Re: [docs] Credit card chapter updates

2003-08-30 Thread Chris Lyttle
Jon, Please commit any updates to docs you have done before sunday evening PST. This is a new release, even tho the reason for it is a bugfix, I still would want to commit any docs changes you had made in the meantime. Chris On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 12:20, Jon Lapham wrote: > I updated the credit c

Re: documentation screenshots

2003-08-30 Thread Chris Lyttle
Jon, The Nautilus style guide was developed somewhat before the gnome one. I personally think that where they conflict we should go with the gnome one. The gnome one is put to gether by both people from the gnome docs project and the sun docs team, so I think it is more authoritative. I wasn't awa

Re: Bug in Transaction Import; Patch attached.

2003-08-29 Thread Chris Lyttle
Does this require another quick release of 1.8.6? I was already planning to do a gnucash-docs release (1.8.3) this weekend. Chris On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 14:01, Christian Stimming wrote: > The latest Transaction import changes in the gnucash-1.8.5 version contains an > error. If the 'other' split

Re: New doc release? Yes, no?

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Lyttle
Sorry meant to send this out but got distracted last night. Yes I want to do a new docs release this weekend, so try and commit the updates you have as well as Micheals FAQ stuff. Chris On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Jon Lapham wrote: > Chris (et al)- > > Were those issues with xmllint enough to warran

Re: Newsforge

2003-08-25 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Jon Lapham wrote: > Tim Wunder wrote: > > Joe Barr has a GNUCash article up on Newsforge. You may recall that he > > wrote an article a while back regarding 1.6 and was only > > semi-complimentary. This article appears to be more positive. > > http://newsforge.com/newsforge/

Re: gnucash-docs-1.8.2 xmllint

2003-08-25 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Jon Lapham wrote: > > > > $ xmllint --valid --noout guide/C/gnucash-guide.xml > > Ack indeed. Sorry 'bout that. Fixed in current CVS. Thanks. > We should put the the xmllint check in the makefile somehow... have you > seen the output of "xmllint --noout guide/C/gnucash-

gnucash-docs-1.8.2 xmllint

2003-08-24 Thread Chris Lyttle
Ack! $ xmllint --valid --noout guide/C/gnucash-guide.xml guide/C/gnucash-guide.xml:378: validity error: ID txns_puttoget1 already defined ^ guide/C/gnucash-guide.xml:95: validity error: ID loans_mortgage1 already defined

Re: Problem with make distcheck

2003-08-21 Thread Chris Lyttle
Yep On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Matthew Vanecek wrote: > Do you get the 3 hunks failing on intl/Makefile.in.in, on gentoo, during > the autogen.sh run? > > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 11:16, Chris Lyttle wrote: > > This is the error I was seeing in gentoo too. I seem to remember a while &

Re: Problem with make distcheck

2003-08-21 Thread Chris Lyttle
This is the error I was seeing in gentoo too. I seem to remember a while ago when we had all the work done to the build process (just before the 1.8.0 release) a bunch of issues that only showed up in distcheck. They were eventually resolved, to bad the guy that did all that work isn't currentl

Release of GnuCash Docs version 1.8.2

2003-08-19 Thread Chris Lyttle
What's New in GnuCash Docs 1.8.2? o Jon Lapham now primary author of Guide o Moved convert-html to make all so html gets built during 'make' o Many, many, many changes to the Guide by Jon (see changelog) o If you can't find it in the Help, look in the Guide (hint) Available at the usual place

Release of GnuCash stable version 1.8.5

2003-08-19 Thread Chris Lyttle
What's New in GnuCash 1.8.5? o Add IS_PAID column and the ability to search for paid/not-paid invoices. o Add HBCI online transfer templates and make usable o Fix a bug where if you unpost an invoice and don't bring the TaxTables up to date, the total value shown in the register is dif

Re: The financial contribution issue

2003-08-18 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 22:54, Benoit Grégoire wrote: > We would need a paypal tip jar very soon. Linas can you set one quickly with > a @gnucash,org address? > This is the only part of your email I disagree with, I've stated this before but here goes... I really don't like the idea of using pay

Re: Problem with make distcheck

2003-08-18 Thread Chris Lyttle
On 18 Aug 2003, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Yes, I just ran distcheck on RH7.3 and it worked just fine: > > == > gnucash-1.8.5.tar.gz is ready for distribution > == > > If you want I can just send you my tarball

Re: Problem with make distcheck

2003-08-18 Thread Chris Lyttle
christian was suggesting. It appeared to me that none of the intltool things that were supposed to be in this file were there. As it still built I didn't think this a problem at the time. Did you run make distcheck? Was that on RH9 or an earlier version? Chris > > Chris Lyttle <[EMAIL P

Problem with make distcheck

2003-08-17 Thread Chris Lyttle
Hi all, I tested the release tonight with make dist and that seemed to work fine, but when I did the make distcheck to do the actual release I got the following; gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/home/chris/cvs/gnucash-test/gnucash-1.8.5/=inst/share/locale\" -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/home/chris/cvs/gnucash-tes

Re: Regarding "Call for help"

2003-08-17 Thread Chris Lyttle
Perhaps you could just read the following FAQ in the GnuCash Wiki; http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/Frequently%20Asked%20Questions%20%28FAQ%29 Chris On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:23, Daniel Carrera wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:18:53PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL

Re: HUGE compling speedup

2003-08-17 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 10:39, Christian Stimming wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Sonntag, 17. August 2003 18:40, Jon Lapham wrote: > > Could someone tell me again why we don't run "msgmerge" on the .po files > > in CVSand save the merged files? > > Because the .po files are the

Re: Documentation web page is live!

2003-08-16 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 17:15, Herman wrote: > Well, just as the Docbook author said: "Don't learn XML". I want to say: > "Don't learn Docbook". > > OpenOffice.org version 1.1RC2, can output in Docbook format. There is not > much need to learn a bunch of arcane tags. :-) Well, while you're tech

Re: xml -> text

2003-08-16 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 03:52, Jon Lapham wrote: > Anyone know how to make regular old text files (ie: no markup) from > docbook xml? > > I can do this with a short perl script, no problem. But, I figured that > there may exist a better way for doing this... Well if you were writing a stylesheet

Re: State of the GnuCash project: A call for help

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Lyttle
This has now been posted to the GnuCash website at http://www.gnucash.org/en/state_of_the_gnucash_project.phtml and also to the news page. Chris -- RedHat Certified Engineer #807302549405490. Checkpoint Certified Security Expert 2000 & NG |^|

Re: Offer to help: Problems with building gnucash, and importingdata

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 17:30, Jon Lapham wrote: > Derek Atkins wrote: > > > > Small correction to the above statement. RH9 RPMs exist for GnuCash > > 1.8.4. You can get RH9 RPMS for GnuCash (including 1.8.4) from: > > > >http://people.redhat.com/notting/gnucash/ > > We should put a copy of

Re: Offer to help: Problems with building gnucash, and importingdata

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 13:40, Jon Lapham wrote: > Yes! You can help! > > Run (don't walk) to your nearest browser and take a look at this: > > http://www.jandr.org/temp/gnucashdocs/basics_import1.html > > This is really the only thing we have in the current docs on importing > Quicken QIF files

Re: GNUCash Financial Contribution

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Benoit Grégoire wrote: > > > > Option 2: > > > > -Finance a gnucash developer get-together in Boston. With 1000$ and > > planing in advance we could probably manage to pay the plane tickets of all > > the developers in North America who are not within driving distance of > >

Re: Web page proposal

2003-08-10 Thread Chris Lyttle
This looks good to me Chris On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:35, Jon Lapham wrote: > Jeff MacDonald wrote: > > I respectfully disagree with use of "in development".. we *know* it's in > > development, and newbies might think that if it's in development it is > > somehow unstable or that they should look

Re: Moving help-topics-index.scm

2003-08-04 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 15:43, Derek Atkins wrote: > > the current situation, which is to display an ugly error message. > > > > The gnucash-doc package (upon installation) would then install a real > > help-topics-index.scm file over that bogus one. > > While a good idea in theory, it does not work

Re: Future "Tutorial and User Guide" direction

2003-08-02 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 17:56, Jon Lapham wrote: > Speaking of the Help and Guide documents... can someone explain what is > the philosophy behind them? > > My understanding of what "help" pages are is to explain what things > specifically do. But, no discussions of "why" or "howto", and no > di

Re: bug 95602: updating tips of the day

2003-07-26 Thread Chris Lyttle
I've always wondered why we didn't just do an automatic check and compile support if libofx was installed. I'd even go so far as to make it a required package for gnucash installation... Chris On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 08:00, Derek Atkins wrote: > Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Oh, oka

Re: "what's new" document

2003-07-26 Thread Chris Lyttle
t's new in > > Gnucash 1.8" text has been written by Chris Lyttle for the press notes of > > each release. But somehow nobody converted these email notes into some > > document that is included with the gnucash package. You/somebody would "only" > >

Re: GnuCash v1.8.5

2003-07-26 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 01:35, Christian Stimming wrote: > :-) Does that mean we are now aiming for August 10 for the 1.8.5 release? As I > already have mentioned I'd prefer the earliest date possible... ;) > > Christian No, that means it would be either aug 3rd or 17th. I'd prefer to do it the 1

Re: GnuCash v1.8.5

2003-07-25 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 07:46, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Therefore I would suggest a 1.8.5 release two weeks from now, on > > Sunday August 10. Further suggestions and discussion? > > I think that's probably a bit too soon; maybe one week later, aug 17? > This will give translators a bit more time to

Re: GnuCash v1.8.5

2003-07-25 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 06:02, Jon Lapham wrote: > I ask because I really would like the new documentation to go in, but I > will probably need a day or two to fix "dangling link" type issues that > always arise when the docs are in flux. Note that the docs module releases are independent of the m

Re: RFC: Chapter 8 Tutorial/Guide

2003-07-11 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 06:29, Jon Lapham wrote: > Rewrite: > Asset appreciation occurs when something you own increases in value over > time. When you sell this asset for more than you paid, the difference > is known as "capital gains". An example of an asset from which you > could receive capital

Re: RFC: Chapter 8 Tutorial/Guide

2003-07-10 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 08:43, Jon Lapham wrote: > = > assetloan_concepts1.html > compare to: > > This is the intro to the chapter. My only question to the list for this > page is whether you think these 3 subjects belong in the same chapter > (asset depreciation,

Re: assets and loans guide

2003-07-06 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 19:43, Christopher Browne wrote: > Quite a lot of work has gone into the documentation, over the years, and > it's more than a little irritating if the "problems of lack of good > documentation" are merely the result of ignoring what was already there. > Its easy to sit on th

Re: "techdocs" idea

2003-06-21 Thread Chris Lyttle
Woohoo, three cheers for Linas Chris On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 19:48, Linas Vepstas wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:49:45AM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: > > > > > > >I dont think we need to put "books.txt" or "on periods" onto the web. >

Re: chapter 3 tutorial and guide

2003-06-17 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 14:41, Jon Lapham wrote: > I think it would be cleaner if instead we presented the GnuCash > recommended way first, and then compared it to other methods later (the > compoarison of accounts and categories). Heck, maybe a separate > chapter. It seems a bit less convoluted

Re: "techdocs" idea

2003-06-16 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 21:12, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > >I dont think we need to put "books.txt" or "on periods" onto the web. > > Except that they are already there, have been for 3 years > (thanks to jade). > > http://gnucash.org/lxr/gnucash/source/src/doc/books.txt > > The entire LXR tree is u

Re: "techdocs" idea

2003-06-16 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:31, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Why not keep a "techdocs" directory in gnucash-docs in which these > > types of things are maintained in xml format. Then, occasionally, we > > can press HTML versions for the web site, and text versions to place > > in the various locations of

[Fwd: Re: chapter 2 tutorial and guide]

2003-06-16 Thread Chris Lyttle
Oops send to list too :) -Forwarded Message- > From: Chris Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: chapter 2 tutorial and guide > Date: 16 Jun 2003 21:07:08 -0700 > > On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 13:52, Jon Lapham wrote: &

Re: Tutorial Installation Instructions.. take 2

2003-06-14 Thread Chris Lyttle
ne during 'make' without the need to run 'make install' Chris On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 13:20, Chris Lyttle wrote: > On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 12:57, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Chris Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 12:44, Lina

Re: Tutorial Installation Instructions.. take 2

2003-06-14 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 12:57, Derek Atkins wrote: > Chris Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 12:44, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:19:26PM -0700, Chris Lyttle was heard to remark: > > > > Well, I made the co

Re: Tutorial Installation Instructions.. take 2

2003-06-14 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 12:44, Linas Vepstas wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:19:26PM -0700, Chris Lyttle was heard to remark: > > Well, I made the conversion part of the install process in order to keep > > the tarball small. I can, however, make a 'make html' target f

Re: Tutorial Installation Instructions.. take 2

2003-06-14 Thread Chris Lyttle
Just do make install, it'll run the convert to html command itself. FYI the commands to do the html conversion are in xmldocs.make Chris On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 11:37, Linas Vepstas wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 07:45:05PM -0500, Linas Vepstas was heard to remark: > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 04:

Re: First stab at gnucash-docs

2003-06-13 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 07:13, Jon Lapham wrote: I wont rehash the rest of this thread, but I did want to make a few comments. > 1) Are we encouraging or discouraging URL links to external sites in the > documentation? I noticed there was a link to the gnucash.org site in > chapter2... > I've se

Re: Hacking gnucash-docs

2003-06-12 Thread Chris Lyttle
Jon, Go right ahead, I've not had time to work on the docs for a while so you can basically pick anything you want and update away. Besides I know very little about investments. Please try to follow the style used in the tutorial, basically I'm trying to keep the help for 'how do I do this thing I

Re: SuSE mentiones HBCI-enabled Gnucash in SuSE 8.2 announcement

2003-03-11 Thread Chris Lyttle
Oh additional press coverage: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-03-11-019-26-NW-SW-SS On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 18:27, Chris Lyttle wrote: > That is very cool, congrats all! > > Chris > > On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 06:59, Christian Stimming wrote: > > http://heise.d

Re: Net Asset Calculation

2003-03-11 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 17:10, Kevin Benton wrote: > > One of the things I learned both as a volunteer and in business is that > leaders need to build teams where needs exist. Those teams need > administrators, recruiters, and workers. Members of those teams will > benefit by building teams of the

Re: SuSE mentiones HBCI-enabled Gnucash in SuSE 8.2 announcement

2003-03-11 Thread Chris Lyttle
That is very cool, congrats all! Chris On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 06:59, Christian Stimming wrote: > http://heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-11.03.03-000/ (in german) > > SuSE announces their next distro version 8.2 to be released in April. > The surprising point is that their list of "what's new" expli

Release of GnuCash stable version 1.8.2

2003-03-09 Thread Chris Lyttle
What's New in GnuCash 1.8.2? - Scheduled Transactions: GnuCash now has the ability to automatically create and enter transactions, remind when a transaction is due, give a choice of entering a transaction or postponing it and remove an automated transaction after a

Re: GNUCash Quality (was Re: 1.8.2 Release candidate)

2003-03-05 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:03, Kevin Benton wrote: > > Sorry Chris, I disagree. Any time I make changes to something where I > work and ask someone to test my changes, its only respectful that I > include what I'm asking them to test before they start testing rather > than making them go download t

Re: 1.8.2 Release candidate

2003-03-04 Thread Chris Lyttle
3, 2003 at 09:29:03PM -0800, Chris Lyttle wrote: > > > > > > I've put a release candidate in > > > http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/release-candidate/gnucash-1.8.1.5.tar.gz > > > > > > Packagers please try it out and feedback a

1.8.2 Release candidate

2003-03-03 Thread Chris Lyttle
Hi all, I've put a release candidate in http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/release-candidate/gnucash-1.8.1.5.tar.gz Packagers please try it out and feedback any problems. If this goes well I'll release a tarball friday for you to package against for a sunday release of 1.8.2. C

Re: 1.8.2

2003-02-23 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 11:22, don Paolo Benvenuto wrote: > Hi guys! Anyone imagine when will be 1.8.2 out? > This is more a question of if there is a need at this stage for a new release. My feeling is that as we are now in a stable series it is better to wait until either; a) An urgent bugfix req

Target Milestones

2003-02-16 Thread Chris Lyttle
With work starting on the port to GNOME2 for GnuCash, I thought it might be a good idea to start marking in bugzilla what things we want to be addressed in the GNOME2 version. To this end I propose making a 'Target Milestone" version of "2.0.x" to indicate a requested feature is going to be not loo

Re: gnucash files for SuSE 8.1 on sf

2003-02-15 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 02:28, Soeren Mindorf wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I have talked to Christian Stimming how can I release my rpm-packages > from gnucash for SuSE 8.1, he told me you can help. > > I have build the following packages for SuSE 8.1 with hbci support: > > - gnucash 1.7.8 > - gnucash

Re: console interface

2003-02-11 Thread Chris Lyttle
I would say that as we're porting to gnome2 (planned) and that it has recently been awarded the 2002 Helen Keller Achievement Award by the American Foundation for the Blind that would be the best way of advancing an interface for blind users. Chris On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 07:27, Derek Atkins wrote:

Release of GnuCash stable version 1.8.1

2003-02-10 Thread Chris Lyttle
What's New in GnuCash 1.8.1? - Scheduled Transactions: GnuCash now has the ability to automatically create and enter transactions, remind when a transaction is due, give a choice of entering a transaction or postponing it and remove an automated transaction after a

Re: Good-bye from active development / Rueckzug von der aktivenProgrammierung

2003-02-10 Thread Chris Lyttle
I must express my gratitude and thanks to you for all your hard work. It was also great to meet you when I visited hamburg. Its been great having you involved in GnuCash, and I certainly appreciate the advice and support you've given me in working at GnuCash. I hope to see you from time to time to

Re: Delay release

2003-02-10 Thread Chris Lyttle
We still seem to have this problem. Every so often doing a compile it happens, I got it tonight trying to make distcheck for the release. Chris On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 09:50, David Hampton wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 00:48, Chris Lyttle wrote: > > I ran into a problem when I was doing

Release of GnuCash stable version 1.8.0

2003-02-03 Thread Chris Lyttle
What's New in GnuCash 1.8.0? - Scheduled Transactions: GnuCash now has the ability to automatically create and enter transactions, remind when a transaction is due, give a choice of entering a transaction or postponing it and remove an automated transaction after a

Re: Stable 1.8.0 coming up this Sunday

2003-02-03 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 02:32, Christian Stimming wrote: I'm sorry I haven't been able to do more about this, but life has been distracting me for the past several weeks ;-) I updated the readme for the release, but didn't do the 'Whats new'. I can attempt to clean up/edit the press release you did,

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