gnucash master: Book-Currency Feature step 1

[Alex Aycinena]

Mike,

That's exactly the approach planned. The book options dialogue will be a
choice of three currency accounting approaches: trading accounts,
book-currency, neither. If trading accounts is selected, it should work
just as now. If neither is selected, it should work exactly as now when
trading accounts is not selected.

Regards,

Alex
On Feb 9, 2015 10:24 PM, "Mike Alexander" <mta at umich.edu> wrote:

> > On Feb 9, 2015, at 4:18 PM, J. Alex Aycinena <
> alex.aycinena at code.gnucash.org> wrote:
> >
> > Updated        via  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/b22c6b6e
> (commit)
> >       from  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/9c8405da (commit)
> >
> >
> >
> > commit b22c6b6eb9ab86273bfc7225cc50504f28158bc8
> > Author: Alex Aycinena <alex.aycinena at gmail.com>
> > Date:   Mon Feb 9 12:52:29 2015 -0800
> >
> >    Book-Currency Feature step 1
> >
> >    The changes made are:
> >
> >         libqof/qof/qofbookslots.h - define Currency Accounting Method
> option; keep
> >             the current Trading Accounts option (in order to read prior
> files)
> >         libqof/qof/qofbook.cpp & .h - define function to determine if
> book uses
> >             book-currency, modify function to determine if book uses
> trading
> >             accounts and add gobject properties accordingly
> >         libqof/qof/test/test-qofbook.c - define test function to
> determine if book
> >             uses book-currency and modify test function for trading
> accounts
> >         engine/test/utest-Split.cpp - modify test function for trading
> accounts
> >             to use new "currency-accounting" and "trading" book
> properties
> >         engine/test/utest-Transaction.c - modify test function for
> trading accounts
> >             to use new "currency-accounting" and "trading" book
> properties
> >
>
>
> Your comments imply that you might one day remove the trading account
> option.  Please don’t, and don’t deprecate the use of it.  Trading accounts
> have a number of advantages over forcing the use of a book currency and
> should not be removed.  Peter Selinger’s tutorial mainly talks about a
> “reference currency” to show how it doesn’t work as well as trading
> accounts.  In no way is he arguing that a reference currency is superior to
> trading accounts, although some situations may require the use of a
> reference currency anyway.
>
> I missed the discussion last October about this issue since I was out of
> the country without Internet access, but I fail to see why the issues
> you’re addressing couldn’t be fixed without such a drastic change.  If you
> want to implement this approach, go ahead, but do it in a way that doesn’t
> interfere with the way things work now.  That’s the approach I took with
> trading accounts (if you turn them off GnuCash works like they had never
> been implemented) and you should do the same here.
>
>                  Mike
>