Register2

[John Ralls]

On Oct 21, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 

Robert,

Glad you've gotten your computer sorted. 

Are you sure you want to blow everything away rather than take Geert's suggestion
to disable it with a configure option?

If you're sure about that, would it help for you to have a branch in SVN so that
other devs can build and test your work? We can make the branch before applying the
reversion patch so that we won't be re-applying all of those earlier patches when
you've got your fix-ups completed.

There's an alternative as well: You can create an account on Github, clone the 
Gnucash repo, and create a branch there that you can push to at will.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On 14 October 2013 18:52, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
> 
>> **
>> 
>> Hi Robert,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry to hear about your computer crash. I wish you good luck in restoring
>> your working environment(s).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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 ?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Geert
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sunday 13 October 2013 10:47:19 Robert Fewell wrote:
>> 
>>> Guy's, I have had a bit of a disaster with my PC recently, I
>> 
>>> accidentally deleted six VM hard disks by mistake which were on an
>> 
>>> XFS file system partition. I have tried various programs to recover
>> 
>>> them, each being 10G - 40G but to no avail and the backup I did have
>> 
>>> was way out of date to be of use, must remember to do more regular
>> 
>>> backups.
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> As a result, I need to rebuild these VM's before I can continue with
>> 
>>> the changes but two of them are more important to me than the one I
>> 
>>> use to build GnuCash on so it will probably take a couple of weeks
>> 
>>> before I get going again.
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> Obviously I will need to remember / redo all the changes I had lined
>> 
>>> up which included getting the scrollbar back to one, fixed the crash
>> 
>>> on exit and some others I had sorted out partly.
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> John's email beat mine, I do not wish to delay the release and would
>> 
>>> be happy if the changes were pulled as I am not sure how long it
>> 
>>> would be to get an acceptable register2 update.
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> I would also like to ask if people think this register2 update is the
>> 
>>> way to go, there is still a lot of work to be done but all the
>> 
>>> elements are there OR scrap it and go down the rewrite what is there
>> 
>>> with cairo calls replacing the canvas stuff. Not sure how much work
>> 
>>> that would be, may be quicker or simpler ?
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> Regards,
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> Bob
>> 
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