Cash Flow Report Between 2.6.3 and 2.6.5

[John Ralls]

> On Jan 25, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Robin Chattopadhyay <robinraymn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Bump...
> 
> On Sunday, January 18, 2015, Robin Chattopadhyay <robinraymn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi-
>> 
>> I've been using GC 2.6.3 on a Win7 PC for a while. In that time, I've
>> saved a cash flow report just the way I liked it.
>> 
>> Recently, I switched to a new Win 8 PC and started running 2.6.5. My saved
>> report no longer functions the same as it did under 2.6.3. I switched to
>> 2.6.3 on the new PC and the report has gone back to the way I liked it. How
>> can I get the cash flow report from 2.6.3 into 2.6.5? I thought I could
>> replace cash-flow.scm on the new PC with the one from the old PC but that
>> didn't seem to do the trick.
>> 
>> The difference is how splits are handled. In 2.6.3, the report takes the
>> net that moved into or out the account, but 2.6.5 reports all the splits.
>> 
>> For example, I will record in one transaction my gross pay and
>> various deductions. In 2.6.3, the cash flow report shows just the net pay
>> going into the checking account. In 2.6.5, the report shows the gross pay
>> going in and all of the deductions going out.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Robin
>> 


See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722140 for the reasons for the change and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622778 for what the original change was meant to solve.

The changes in question affected only cash-flow.scm, so the fact that replacing it with the old one didn't work suggests that there's a cached byte-compiled version somewhere, though I'd thought that behavior was limited to guile-2. I don't know where that would be on Windows, but on Unix it's in $HOME/.cache/guile. If you can't find it you can check the time-stamp of cash-flow.scm and make sure that it's today; that should force guile to recognize that it's changed and to recompile it.

Regards,
John Ralls