Accounts still require both security and currency?

[Derek Atkins]

Eh, it only caused me trouble because I based my work on the PostGres
Backend, and _that_ has it wrong! :) It uses xaccAccountSetCommodity()
which fails to properly initialize security-based accounts
(stocks/mututal funds/etc.).

It would be nice if there were an easy way to know whether there is
supposed to be one commodity or two, short of copying the switch()
statement from Account.c.  I'm not sure what the right answer is.
I can code around it, but in the long run either the RPC protocol
will have to change, or it will always be sending an extra set
of empty strings once we change.

-derek

grib@gnumatic.com (Bill Gribble) writes:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:14:36AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > It looks like the changeover from accounts having both a currency and
> > a security to just having a commodity is not, yet, complete.  
> 
> In fact it hasn't even started yet, and probably won't until after the
> next stable release (1.6).  It's a pain for sure, but it's a fairly
> big problem and nobody has time to do it right now.  Sorry if this is
> causing you trouble.
> 
> b.g.
> 

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