What do we do with the reports?

[Derek Atkins]

So long as the report outputs correct data and properly-formed HTML
tables, that's all that matters to me.  IIRC the old report DID have
some problems in one (or both) of these issues.

-derek

Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> in March I already complained about some of the current reports in SVN (see 
> mail on 2006-03-19). This concerns the "Account Summary", the "balance 
> sheet", and the "income/expense statement". I think the current code is
> - very slow, by a factor of 3-4
> - looks ugly
> - and doesn't show what people want (at least not what I want).
>
> As a test, I tried the old (1.8.x) form of the account summary report and 
> compared it to what we currently have in SVN. With the attached patch you can 
> do the same - it's basically the same as "svn merge -rHEAD:10433 
> src/report/standard-reports/account-summary.scm". Try it, test the time it 
> takes to compute the report, check out the look -- then please say which one 
> you like better. (As you might guess, I like the old form much better.) 
> Thanks.
>
> Christian

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