Report development without the need to restart GnuCash

[Derek Atkins]

"Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>     "Torsten Edeler" <torsten at edeler.org> writes:
>    
>     > I'm not very sure, if I just created a memory leak.... On every call to
>     > options-generator the function gnc:new-options is called twice. Once
>     outside
>     > and once inside the myoptions function. I hope Scheme has some kind of
>     > garbage collection to handle this.
>    
>     It does.
>
> Derek, do you agree that there is a bug in the reporting API, namely that it
> will not catch exceptions that occur in Torsten's custom options generator?
> (It does catch any exception occurring in his custom renderer.)

Oh, maybe.  It's certainly arguable.  On the other hand, it's
pretty hard to mess up your options-generator!  That's a pretty
darn easy procedure to get right.

> If so, should Torsten file a bug report? I tried looking for an existing bug
> that covers this, but couldn't find one.

Are you planning to fix it?

Honestly, I'd consider this a "developer issue", not a "user issue".
Those dont really need bug reports, per se.

> -Charles

-derek

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