Question about Lots and Capital Gains

[Charles Day]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> "Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Derek, can you be more specific about what is incomplete in the lots
> stuff?
> > Maybe a few people will be inspired to dig into the code. (Perhaps this
> level
> > of detail should be moved to the gnucash-devel list.)
>
> Umm.. I can try, but I didn't do the work so you're testing the memory
> of someone who watched it from the sidelines.  IIRC the lot scrubber
> didn't always do the right thing, didn't handle all cases, and also
> IIRC it didn't do the proper thing if you already had manual
> cap-gains splits.
>
> In other words, IIRC, it corrupted your data in strange ways.
>

OK, thanks. Sounds like an appropriate first step is for someone to just
test it really well and see what works, what doesn't, and what can be
approved.  -Charles

> Cheers,
> > Charles
>
> -derek
>
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