gnucash 2.7.1: ERROR: Unbound variable: gnc-build-dotgnucash-path

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 20, 2017, at 1:37 AM, Sébastien de Menten <sdementen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Indeed. But in gnucash guile world, how will scm scripts using the old API still work tomorrow ? Or do they need a migration/versioning per gnucash version ?
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> On Nov 20, 2017 06:04, "John Ralls" <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
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>> On Nov 19, 2017, at 8:28 PM, Sébastien de Menten <sdementen at gmail.com <mailto:sdementen at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> btw, how can I keep backward compatibility in this case so that my reports work for both gnucash 2.7/2.8 and gnucash 2.6 ?
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>> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 5:51 PM, Sébastien de Menten <sdementen at gmail.com <mailto:sdementen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Ok, thanks for the clarification. 
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>> On Nov 19, 2017 16:05, "John Ralls" <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
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>> > On Nov 19, 2017, at 6:20 AM, Sébastien de Menten <sdementen at gmail.com <mailto:sdementen at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> > Not sure if it is a bug with gnucash 2.7.1, but I can't use
>> > the gnc-build-dotgnucash-path in the config.user as I get an unbound
>> > variable.
>> > any clue?
>> > is this the right list for questions re gnucash 2.7.1 or should I use the
>> > gnucash-user ML ?
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>> It’s renamed to gnc-build-userdata-path. See libgnucash/core-utils/core-utils.scm.
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>> Depends on the question. API questions usually belong here.
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> The pythonic way would be to catch the unbound variable exception and try the other one in the handler.

I’m not much of a schemer so someone more fluent should chime in… but Scheme also has exceptions so I imagine that the same pattern would work.

Regards,
John Ralls