Are patches to 1.8 useful?

[Christian Stimming]

Hi,

thanks for reporting this. As you've guessed, the development of the 
1.8.x branch has completely stopped, so we won't apply any patches to 
1.8 anywhere in SVN/CVS.

However, since you said some things might be relevant to HEAD/1.9/2.0 as 
well, it might be a good idea to send it anyway, not the least so that 
other people who need improvements in 1.8 might dig this up from the 
archive. Depends on how much effort you are willing to spend.

As for potential 1.9/2.0 improvements: These are tracked issue-by-issue 
in bugzilla, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash so 
actually the most helpful thing for us would be to open *one bugzilla 
report per issue*, where the solved problem/enhancement is described and 
the patch is attached (attachments can be uploaded after you initially 
committed the bugreport). This way you will have the guarantee that all 
potential improvements are reviewed, commented upon, and (if relevant to 
1.9/SVN-HEAD) applied to SVN -- but of course we cannot tell beforehand 
whether some of these bugzilla reports might not be closed as 
"irrelevant to 1.9/WONTFIX".

Entering these into bugzilla, one issue per report, would definitely be 
the most helpful contribution for us. But if you don't want to spend 
that much effort on this, you can still consider sending everything in 
one batch here, but on the mailing list non-trivial patches tend to get 
forgotten sometimes. On the other hand in bugzilla they surely won't be 
forgotten.

Thank you for any contribution here.

Regards

Christian

Mike Alexander schrieb:
> 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.