Are patches to 1.8 useful?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Jan 18 10:33:57 EST 2006


Just adding my $0.02 --

If you take the effort to up-port your changes to SVN they will
definitely be applied quicker than if you do not.  (Speaking for
myself, I'm much more willing to apply a patch that only requires me
to audit it, run 'patch', and then commit -- if I have to hand apply a
large patch I'm much more likely to put it on hold and go get a
sandwich and do something else).   ;)

>From the description it certainly sounds like some of your changes
are relevant, but again it would help if you tested SVN first to
make sure before going through the effort to create the bugzilla
reports.

Thanks!

-derek

Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:

> 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.
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