[GNC] Why duplicate reports in 3.2?

[Christopher Lam]

On 13/07/18 05:17, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
> As I understand it, the two menu items call the same report file with different title flags, so there is no overhead in storage or codebase.
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> Your concern boils down to the fact that both names appear in the menu.
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> While this is annoying, it has come up on the lists before that a person has expected to find one of these reports, and wondered where it was—not knowing that it was there under the other name. I believe it was decided that it was easer just to include the same report under both names, making its availability clear to a broader set of users. Unless there is complete agreement in the field for one name over another in all circumstances (and there doesn’t appear to be), it does no harm to include both, in my opinion.
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> Honestly, it would be more useful in my opinion to clear out the “standard” reports that serve no purpose other than to show a potential report programmer (I haven’t heard of many of those, besides Doug Doughty and Chris Lam) how they might write new reports. The two “vs. Day of Week” reports and the two sample reports come to mind. I'm also unsure of the purpose of most of the Budget reports, and when I asked on the lists for descriptions of these, I did not receive any input, suggesting that I am not alone in wondering at their purpose.
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> But the two entries for the same report? Not a big deal.
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Thank you David

Many users have saved reports that depend on the existing reports' guids 
being available, so, for now there is little imperative to remove the 
duplicated report.

C