[GNC] Configurable Year Start Day/Month

[John Ralls]

Flywire,

Nope, accounting periods didn't get fixed so everything I said in 2021 about that is still true. 

> https://github.com/flywire/gnucash/blob/Fiscal-year/libgnucash/app-utils/date-utilities.scm#L557-L569

Messing around in GnuCash's internals is only supported if the result gets accepted via a pull request. Otherwise it's a fork and with forks you always run the risk that we'll change or remove the underlying code and break your changes. That's true no matter what language the code is written in and it's true of every FLOSS project I've been involved with, which at this point is quite a few.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Apr 18, 2023, at 4:03 PM, flywire <flywire0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Your assumptions are wrong. Clearly, communication from the developer(s)
> was ineffective. Full advice of the "major change" quoted in
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-April/106463.html
> with no response to the request for guidance.
> 
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 at 15:20, Vincent Dawans <dawansv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> ... It seems that John Ralls mentions the problems with it in the
>> discussion from 2021 you link that and hints that it might be changed in
>> version 5. I don't see a change as of 5.0 yet (unless I am missing
>> something) so I can only assume...
>> 
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