Are patches to 1.8 useful?

[Mike Alexander]

I've been using gnucash to keep track of my finances for the last year 
or so.  Since I wanted a reliable program (I got tired of Quicken 
crashing) I've been using version 1.8.

During that time I've made a number of changes to gnucash to fix bugs 
and improve it in various ways.  Are you interested in patches for 
these changes?  Most of them are small changes that might still be 
relevant to the 1.9/2.0 code stream.  If the 1.8 code stream is so old 
and out of date that you don't care about changes to it, I won't bother 
generating patches.  On the other hand if the patches would be useful 
I'm happy to generate them.

The changes affect things like handling multiple currencies, using 
consistent prices in reports, building in a separate directory from the 
source and running from that directory without installing gnucash, 
speeding up loading of large files, and a few other things.

-- 
Mike Alexander
Ann Arbor, MI