gnucash master: Multiple changes pushed

[John Ralls]

> On Aug 5, 2015, at 6:05 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> writes:
> 
>> On Tuesday 04 August 2015 12:00:06 Derek Atkins wrote:
>>> Geert,
>>> 
>>> This change seems like the wrong direction; the point of including the
>>> book in the API was to reduce the need for global variables/storage.
>>> I'd like to see GnuCash move more towards being able to have multiple
>>> files open simultaneously, not further away from it.
>>> 
>>> I clearly missed the gnc:*company-name* change the preceeded this
>>> change otherwise I'd probably have commented on that, too.
>>> 
>>> -derek
>>> 
>> 
>> Derek,
>> 
>> That's a fair point. I have reverted most of the commit that removes the 
>> book parameter and instead corrected gnc:company-info to require it 
>> (gnc:company-info was introduced by John during his kvp rewrite).
>> 
>> I occurred to me though that the issue is much more fundamental than 
>> that. I haven't found a universal way to tie a report to a book. It'd 
>> have expected the options database to be able to tell what book it 
>> belongs to, but at present it doesn't.
> 

I’m a bit at two minds about this: On the one hand it’s clear that many report customizations apply to only one book. On the other I have trusts for my two daughters which are pretty much identical and which it makes sense to use the same customizations. On the third, the two accounts are so identical that I can run the report twice in one of them changing only the title, so it’s not actually necessary to use the report in both except that my aging brain would have to remember in which account the reports live.

Regards,
John Ralls