Another 2.5.1 request - this for reports with charts

[John Ralls]

On May 14, 2013, at 12:00 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> On Monday 13 May 2013 21:50:04 John Ralls wrote:
> > On May 13, 2013, at 9:32 PM, David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > > I am pretty sure that all the barchart reports are broken in the Windows
> > > release 2.5.1.  I am not doing very much testing because 2.5.1 also
> > > crashes when editing scheduled transactions, which I do nearly every day
> > > in my real data, so I must go back quickly to 2.4.13.  I do not have any
> > > problems with memory usage when 2.4.13 is running, so I suspect that
> > > 2.5.1 may also have a memory leak.  Granted, I am not properly equipped
> > > to test that hypothesis.
> > > 
> > > I chose the thread title specifically to break away from the Time for
> > > 2.5.1 thread.  I suppose I should have either called it a 2.5.2 request
> > > or Another 2.5.1 bug.  I do think it should be tested in Windows by a
> > > developer before releasing 2.5.2.  It is not that hard to open one or
> > > two reports in a test file.
> > > 
> > > Actually, I am running Ubuntu 12.04 part time on my laptop.
> > > Unfortunately, I am also using some programs that have no Linux
> > > counterpart, so I am not considering a total conversion.
> > 
> > Sounds like "Another 2.5.1 bug" or even "More 2.5.1 bugs" would have been
> > the best choice, unfortunately.
> > 
> > I'll try to find time to give trunk a spin in Win7 later this week. Aside
> > from the GtkTreeView register not that much has changed in Gnucash itself,
> > so perhaps we've been a little too aggressive in updating the dependencies
> > for the Win32 package.
> > 
> Actually the chart reports did change as well. They are now based on jqplot (a javascript libary) instead of gnuplot. So this may have introduced a new issue.
>  
> 

That was three months ago, before 2.5.0.

Regards,
John Ralls