2.6 Release

[Ted Creedon]

Need the guile 2.x thing resolved soon
Tedc

On Friday, December 30, 2011, Christian Stimming <christian at cstimming.de>
wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 29. Dezember 2011, 14:18:38 schrieb John Ralls:
>> > I propose to start a new 2.5.0 / 2.6.0 release series in order to make
>> > those "small business user" improvements available in a stable release.
>> > As already discussed in length, there haven't been that much
>> > significant changes in gnucash apart from these features which might
>> > seem minor to all users who don't happen to use gnucash for running a
>> > business.
>>
>> Thank you. That's much better; perhaps we can turn it into a wiki page to
>> point testers at.
>
> Yes. I've collected my list at
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Schedule#Feature_Checklist_for_2.6.0
> Feel free to edit this list and/or add any comments, as usual in the wiki.
>
>> Are there unit tests for all of those features?
>
> No. The points I mentioned are all UI features, for which we don't have
any
> unittests so far. But all of those features have been implemented by
direct
> user requests who also acknowledged the successful implementation of the
> feature, so they are indeed in daily use by some people.
>
> On the other hand some of them imply some additional engine layer
features (or
> "business logic features"), and of course those might get tested by
unittests.
> To my knowledge, none of those features have had "business logic"
unittests
> added. I will look into adding this, but I doubt it will cover any
significant
> parts of those features.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Christian
>
>> I'll spend some more time chasing down edits that aren't immediately
>> committed, so that the SQL backend is sure to work properly (and also add
>> automated tests for that to setters).
>>
>> Is it feasible to remove Guile 1.6 support (by fixing the deprecation
>> warnings with Guile 1.8)? Will that be sufficient to make Guile 2.0 work?
>> (I'm willing to do the work.)
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
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