Version 2.6.4

[David Carlson]

On 11/21/2014 11:08 AM, Wm wrote:
> Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:00:53
> <B783F0D7-8DBC-4926-8139-29352347F120 at ceridwen.us>  John Ralls
> <jralls at ceridwen.us>
>
>>
>>> On Nov 20, 2014, at 10:35 PM, Wm <wm+gnc at tarrcity.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:23:38
>>> <9A4E0683-21E6-4E34-AC60-90F5CD414DB1 at ceridwen.us>  John Ralls
>>> <jralls at ceridwen.us>
>
>>>> Your concerns are valid, but the Windows problems aren’t with
>>>> GnuCash code. The short version is that we broke the Windows build
>>>> system and can’t at the moment create a working Windows GnuCash to
>>>> distribute, regardless of the GnuCash version.
>>>
>>> ... and 2.6.4-2 isn't broken for everyone, it is in alternate daily
>>> use here on WinXP SP3.   e.g. I might use 2.6.3 Portable for a
>>> report I've already set up and 2.6.4-2 if I'm trying out a new one.
>>> Because of the way PortableApps store settings the two versions
>>> happily co-exist and use the same data, though not at the same time,
>>> obviously.
>>>
>>
>> You might prefer the latest maint build from
>> http://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/ to 2.6.4-2. The maint
>> build won't crash on quit. It's problem is that it displays only text
>> reports, no graphs.
>
>
> 2.6.4-2 git rev 79bdcf1+ on 2014-10-11
>
> doesn't crash on quit *and* produces graphs just fine for me so the
> maint build would appear to be retrograde
>

While my total test time with 
http://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/gnucash-2.6.4-2014-11-17-git-e59c3e0+-setup.exe 
is still measured in minutes on Win 7, I have not seen it crash, and I
have exported reports in HTML and opened them with Firefox, Chrome and
IE, although I had to let IE use Active-X, or whatever it said, and the
graphs appeared to display correctly.  I did not try stacked bars, which
may be a separate issue.  I would encourage other brave Windows users to
test that release or one of the two more recent releases on their own
test files.

David C