Register2

[Robert Fewell]

I have added a patch to bug 673193 to remove all new register2 files and
amend existing files to restore the register back to the original setup. I
will progress the register2 changes off line and try to resolve the
existing open bugs.

Regards,

     Robert


On 14 October 2013 18:52, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

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> Hi Robert,
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> Sorry to hear about your computer crash. I wish you good luck in restoring
> your working environment(s).
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> Based on your feedback I propose to disable the register2 work for now to
> get 2.6 out of the door as planned in December. I seem to remember you were
> rather careful to keep the register2 code separate from the old code, so
> disabling should be a relatively simple matter, right ?
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>
>
> On which road is best for the new register, I can't really comment. I have
> no experience at all with cairo, nor with the current register's internals.
> So I can't estimate which path would be the easiest/fastest, and much less
> so which one would be the best in the long run.
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>
>
> Geert
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> On Sunday 13 October 2013 10:47:19 Robert Fewell wrote:
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> > Guy's, I have had a bit of a disaster with my PC recently, I
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> > accidentally deleted six VM hard disks by mistake which were on an
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> > XFS file system partition. I have tried various programs to recover
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> > them, each being 10G - 40G but to no avail and the backup I did have
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> > was way out of date to be of use, must remember to do more regular
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> > backups.
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> >
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> > As a result, I need to rebuild these VM's before I can continue with
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> > the changes but two of them are more important to me than the one I
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> > use to build GnuCash on so it will probably take a couple of weeks
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> > before I get going again.
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> >
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> > Obviously I will need to remember / redo all the changes I had lined
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> > up which included getting the scrollbar back to one, fixed the crash
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> > on exit and some others I had sorted out partly.
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> >
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> > John's email beat mine, I do not wish to delay the release and would
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> > be happy if the changes were pulled as I am not sure how long it
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> > would be to get an acceptable register2 update.
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> >
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> > I would also like to ask if people think this register2 update is the
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> > way to go, there is still a lot of work to be done but all the
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> > elements are there OR scrap it and go down the rewrite what is there
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> > with cairo calls replacing the canvas stuff. Not sure how much work
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> > that would be, may be quicker or simpler ?
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> >
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> > Regards,
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> >
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> > Bob
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