Request for delaying stable release: Multi-currency code stillnot mature enough

[Stanley Long]

More modules and smaller project code are favored here.

Kernighan and Ritchie / Plaugher wrote about that before 1980.

I have fond memories of Amiga packages which let the user pick which
file search tool gets used.  It was an external module, even for some
non open-source executables.

You people do such good stuff that I hesitate to weigh in, so just take
this as one lurker's approval.

Stanley Long, PE
Consulting Electrical Engineer
Anchorage, Alaska


Chris Lyttle wrote:
> 
> One last thing, which is relatively minor but I would like some input
> from you all on, is it was suggested to me last night to drop the
> internal GnuCash help browser in favor of using whatever GNOME standard
> defined one is available. I don't have a problem with this (in fact I
> believe we eventually should do this, just wasn't considering it for
> this release). I've discovered several shortcoming's with the present
> help browser which I've prevailed on David to fix up, but still run into
> problems. The way I've setup the docs module now this wouldn't have a
> major impact on the docs, but it would change several things in GnuCash
> itself;
> 1) No search functionality - We could use possibly an internal search
> function to find pages, but it would require what I regard as to much
> effort for little gain.
> 2) Removal of indexing - the present scheme based indexing would now be
> handled by the external help browser
> 3) Change of help button functions - this is probably the most major
> thing, changing the help functions internally to use the standard gnome
> functions to launch help and the help menu items to do the same.
> 
> Some advantages to doing this are;
> 1) Less code to fix/maintain - its handled by the larger GNOME project
> 2) Ability to launch/read the help independently of GnuCash
> 3) Future improvements to the GNOME help system automatically usable by
> GnuCash
> 
> I have already made the help docs be registered and usable by GNOME2.
> With the discussion on delaying the release I feel more comfortable
> about suggesting this now.
> 
> Chris
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