That old chestnut - multi currency

[Charles Day]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:

> --On September 21, 2009 1:59:29 AM -0600 ehrbar <
> ehrbar at lists.econ.utah.edu> wrote:
>
>
>> I'd like to weigh in too, that I'd love to see
>> Peter Selinger's suggestions implemented.
>>
>>
> Some time ago I implemented many of Peter Selinger's suggestions in
> Gnucash.  Since these changes were not considered acceptable and probably
> won't ever be made part of the standard version of Gnucash I decided to make
> them available as a patch.  Bug 537476, <
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537476>, describes the changes
> I made and contains the patch to implement them.  I just updated the patch
> to work with version 2.3.5 of Gnucash.  In addition to working with the
> newer version, it also changes things so that the trading accounts created
> are a new account type instead of pretending to be income accounts.  See the
> note attached to the new patch for more information.
>
> Please note that trading accounts are entirely optional.  Be default the
> patched version of Gnucash won't create them.  Only if you turn on the new
> option I added will they be created.
>
> If you're willing to build Gnucash from source, this patch would let you
> experiment with trading accounts and see how they work for you.  If anyone
> else has tried the patch, I'd love to hear about your experiences with it.
>  I've been using trading accounts for a couple of years now and haven't
> found any big problems.
>
> I haven't been very good about keeping the patch up to date, but if there's
> interest in it I'll try to do better in the future.
>
> I still would like to give this patch a try too at some point. When we last
looked at it, there were still so many crasher bugs in the register that I
just hunkered down and worked on hunting those down and closing them out.

Unfortunately I can't even build GnuCash since I upgraded my Mac to Snow
Leopard, due to some problems building dependencies. But hopefully those
will get ironed out by the time I get back from my vacation. Either that or
I'll take the plunge and swap over to jhbuild.

-- 
> Mike Alexander           mta at umich.edu
> Ann Arbor, MI            PGP key ID: BEA343A6


-Charles