Request for delaying stable release: Multi-currency code still not mature enough

[Nigel Titley]

On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 14:39, Christian Stimming wrote:
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> On Sonntag, 29. Dezember 2002 15:29, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > I for one am truly interested in hearing what these instabilities are..
> > I -thought- it was pretty stable before I left for vacation, and you,
> > Christian, even said so.  Did it become less stable while I've been
> > gone?  If so, how?
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> No, it did not become "less stable". I _thought_ it was pretty stable, _too_. 
> But when I now tried my real data, I discovered that it is _not_ pretty 
> stable, at least not compared to gnucash-1.6. The point simply is that I 
> haven't been using it for actual daily work before, and when I did this now, 
> I discovered far more still unstable points than I thought there were. 
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> I'll continue working with this now, and I'll file bugzillla bugs every time I 
> discover reproducible errors. However, I've already stumbled over a bunch of 
> errors without being able to reproduce them. And this led me to my previous 
> message. :-\

I would agree with Christian, for what my opinion is worth. I *am* using
it for day to day real data, including multi-currency, and I have at
least three bugs open with bugzilla each of which is pretty much of a
show-stopper for me, two of them cause crashes, and one freezes Gnucash
solid. Now Josh is (hopefully) on top of one of these, but the other two
haven't even been succesfully reproduced by anyone but me (although I
can reproduce them without problem). Sure as fate, if you make a full
release, once more people are hammering on the code, you will find these
bugs are reproducible. I really don't think it is sufficiently stable to
release at the moment.

Nigel