[GNC] Disabling Lots Manager

[David Carlson]

David, IIRC for databases that have never had the lots functionality
enabled,  it remains disabled.   This leads to the hope that it would be
possible to disable it, but that may or may not work.  At least,  in my
case I never enabled it outside of one dedicated test case and it seems to
remain disabled as far as I can tell.

>From your description,  it appears to be fraught with problems, so let's
hope that it's affects can be purged from a database.   In a perfect world
there would be a simple setting or procedure to accomplish that.

Can a developer or other user help with this?



On Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 5:04 AM David T. via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Gnucash 4.11 Windows 10
>
> Having struggled once again with the extremely unreliable aspects of the
> Lots Manager, I am resigned to the fact that, while an admirable
> endeavor in concept, the Lots Manager is more trouble than it is worth,
> and leads to books that cannot be considered accurate over the long term.
>
> For the worst of these, see
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798583 regarding how the Lots
> Manager will change RECONCILED GAINS TRANSACTIONS silently. A second
> complaint I have is that if there is a Lot-generated gain transaction in
> the register, deleting this gain transaction ALSO DELETES THE SALE
> TRANSACTION. I can't imagine why this would be considered an appropriate
> linkage to embed in the code, and there's nothing in the register to
> indicate this linkage. I'm also not pleased that I have had frequent
> crashes using the Lot Manager, to the extent that I have had to
> reconcile the same accounts multiple times in a single day. That gets
> old faster than I do.
>
> Today, I'm hoping for two things:
>
> First, I'd like to be able to determine which accounts in my books have
> lots embedded in them, so that I can go through and remove the lots and
> ensure that my books don't get corrupted YET AGAIN by this code. Any
> ideas on how to expose (and root out and eliminate) these lots is welcome.
>
> Second, I would like to find a way to disable the Lots manager entirely
> for my books, so that I don't EVER make the mistaken assumption that the
> Lot Manager is a tool I can use with confidence. I recognize that this
> second ask is unlikely to be possible, but I am nevertheless curious to
> know how complicated it might be to strip out the code altogether in my
> own fork so that it doesn't cause me any more anguish.
>
> David T.
>
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