German tax report should be disabled altogether (Re: [PATCH] - bug #554394 - Income Tax Enhancements - missing German patches attached)

[Christian Stimming]

Dear Alex,

the issue with the German version of tax.scm is that to my knowledge  
it is unusable anyway. Hence, IMHO it can be disabled altogether. In  
particular, if it causes some non-trivial work for you to keep it  
presumably working as before (read: more than 2 hours of work), it is  
most probably not worth this effort and instead it should be disabled  
altogether.

Zitat von "J. Alex Aycinena" <alex.aycinena at gmail.com>:
> It seems that the location selection code in either 'gncmod-tax-us.c'
> or in 'gncmod-locale-reports-us.c' is not being called; when I put
> breakpoints in both and ran gnucash neither seemed to run since the
> application didn't stop anywhere.

Did you compile with --enable-locale-specific-tax? Otherwise the  
selection code of course is not being run.

Other than that, I have no idea why it didn't work.

> Is this the way it's supposed to work? Does this mean the German
> income tax features are kaput and the German patches I sent are not
> needed?

I don't know whether the German tax features are now "more broken"  
than before. But to my knowledge it didn't really work at any time,  
but it rather was a pure proof-of-concept. I'll ask on the German list  
whether anyone was actually using it, and I'll let you know the  
result. But most probably I'll remove it. I'm very sorry for the work  
you already spent on this. The other patches I'll apply soon.

Regards,

Christian