Version 2.6.4

[Dave H]

Project of the Month :-)
 On 28/11/2014 1:11 PM, "David Carlson" <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/27/2014 12:10 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> >> On Nov 27, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Wm <wm+gnc at tarrcity.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thu, 27 Nov 2014 07:49:26 <
> B9EBC2EA-86A4-4C46-8596-426F77D1456D at ceridwen.us>  John Ralls <
> jralls at ceridwen.us>
> >>
> >>> It could well be that GnuCash 2.6.4-2 doesn't exhibit the hang-on-exit
> problem on WinXP. I don't remember if I've tested that. It does hang
> reliably on Win7 and 8.
> >> I can test on other Win versions tomorrow.
> >>
> >> What I'm unsure about is the blanket "not working on Win" which is
> clearly too broad.
> >>
> >> If you (not any individual) wanted to screw acceptance of gnc then the
> co-incidence of POTM and "actually, it doesn't work on Windows" is getting
> on for perfect storm stuff in non-acceptance terms :(
> > Wm,
> >
> > Don't waste your time. I can replicate the problem and I'm actively
> working on it (and have been for over a month). That it's a wide-spread
> problem is amply attested by the 8 duplicate bug reports we've closed on
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738477.
> >
> > No one says "it doesn't work on Windows". We say "2.6.4 has some
> problems on Windows, Windows users should use 2.6.3". I'd think the impact
> on acceptance is far worse when users download 2.6.4 and it's broken.
> >
> > As for POTM, meh. We're on that list two or three times a year, and
> AFAICT it makes no appreciable difference to download rates. I don't have
> access to the stats from www.gnucash.org so I don't know if there's any
> affect there.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> >
> >
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>
> I give up, what does POTM mean?  My Google search was inconclusive.
>
> I should clarify my earlier comment.
> I have been wanting for quite some time to test many of the other bug
> fixes and new features that have been incorporated into the 2.6.x
> releases, and I feel that now I can temporarily live with the chart
> rendering problem while testing other issues, so I am now starting to do
> that.  I am finding that 2.6.4 is noticeably nicer than 2.4.13.  When I
> suggested that other venturesome Windows users might try it, it was
> intended to be taken in that context of testing other features.
>
> I have also done some limited testing in a couple of flavors of Linux
> and seen good results, but I have not been able to get my network set up
> properly to move copies of files between machines easily.
>
> That is mostly a problem of getting the various machines to talk to each
> other, which has just resisted all my efforts to date.  It is supposed
> to be very straightforward setups on both the Windows 7 machines and the
> Ubuntu, Debian, or even PC-BSD machines, but I keep hitting walls.  I
> cannot even get the Windows 7 homegroup feature to work between the two
> Windows 7 machines.  I am about ready to substitute a different router.
> I feel much better now after getting that rant out.
>
> David C
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