Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] newbie notes 1: getting started

2009-01-04 Thread Bob Meyers
Man I hear your pain. I am a newbie too, and I went on a four day/all night obsession trying to get it working. I finally did. I agree the existing documentation is more a puzzle than a howto. I intend to install this again in the next week or so. I'll try to document what I do. I wonder if your

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] newbie notes 1: getting started

2009-01-04 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:25 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > I don't know how to deal with dependencies in a .deb. I may not be > alone. I used dpkg -i to install the package. I got a lot of > complaints. "apt-get -f install" seemed to fix things up. I'm afraid a lot of these problems are mor

[Ledger-smb-devel] newbie notes 1: getting started

2009-01-04 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
Why am I, a newbie, posting my experiences to the developers' list? Because I'm only this ignorant once, ignorant enough to run into problems that the experienced among you cannot even imagine. Oscar Wilde said "Ignorance is like a delicate flower: touch it and the bloom is gone." This long messa

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Reports...

2009-01-04 Thread Chris Travers
Hi Del; On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Del Miller wrote: > So I'd like to make, what appears to be, a simple change to a report and > am hopelessly lost and looking for some direction. Your frustration is not unusual. The legacy code is hard to follow. I can't wait until we get rid of all of

[Ledger-smb-devel] Reports...

2009-01-04 Thread Del Miller
Hello, It's been awhile since I've attempted, but once again I find myself starring at the heaping pile of pretzel logic and spaghetti code that is ledgerSMB (not that I'm blaming you guys, quite the contrary. I am constantly amazed that you folks are able to accomplish *any* improvements given w

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] A query about price matrix code

2009-01-04 Thread Nigel Titley
Chris Travers wrote: > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Darren Wiebe wrote: >> I'd be very interested in seeing this also. I run an oscommerce store >> and I've been manually transferring invoices but this would be much slicker. > > One thing I would highly suggest is making such a bridge open s