Release 2.3.15 soon? What's still missing for 2.4.0?

[J. Alex Aycinena]

Phil,

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 13:15 -0700, J. Alex Aycinena wrote:
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>
>> > To: Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de>
>> > Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:01:45 -0400
>> > Subject: Re: Release 2.3.15 soon? What's still missing for 2.4.0?
>> > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 22:20 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote:
>> >> Dear all,
>> >>
>> >> what about a 2.3.15 release somewhat soon? I think we've already improved on a
>> >> number of remaining bugs so that a new version number would be very good.
>> >>
>> >> Also, I think this 2.3.15 would definitely be the string freeze release, and
>> >> hopefully we won't need much more than maybe another 2.3.16 until we finally
>> >> can make 2.4.0.
>> >>
>> >> Or in other words: Which issues are still open and preventing us from
>> >> releasing a 2.4.0 from trunk right now? I don't know of any...
>> >
>> > Sounds good.  There is at least 1 bug on my list that should be fixed
>> > and I've been slow getting to it.  I also find that "make check" now
>> > fails with the dbi business object tests, so I'll need to chase that
>> > down.
>> >
>> > Phil
>> >
>>
>> The patch attached to bug 625697 needs to be applied before 2.4.0
>> because right now all reports using any style sheets other than
>> default fail in trunk. The patch fixes that. I can't apply it myself
>> and I need another developer to do it for me.
>
> I downloaded this and tried it.  Before the patch, there was an error if
> I switched a balance sheet from "Default" to "Easy".  After the patch,
> the report appeared.  I then tried "Technicolor" and "Footer" and the
> report was blank with no error for both of these.  I can apply this as
> is since it does partially fix the problem or the patch can be tweaked
> some more first.
>
> Phil
>
>

This patch reverses a change that I made to 'html-fonts.scm' in r19376
that caused the style sheets other than 'default' to not work. I am
not sure why balance sheet does not show anything with 'footer' and
'technicolor' for you. However, with the patch applied I have built
gnucash on Fedora 13 and the following reports all work with all style
sheets using either webkit or gtkhtml:

- Income Statement (formatting anomalies with 'footer', all others OK)
- Cash Flow (all OK)
- Balance Sheet (formatting anomalies with 'footer', all others OK)
- Tax Schedule Report (all OK)
- Transaction Report (all OK)

When I run the same reports with the standard gnucash distributed with
F13 (2.3.13, r19217), all reports are identical (including the two
'footer' formatting anomalies noted above and excepting the Tax
Report, of course, which the patch fixes) so I'm pretty sure the patch
works and backs out the problem I previously introduced.

I would be grateful if you would apply it.

Thanks,

Alex