[GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

[Doug]

My fellow PCLinuxOS users would like to thank the team
for the latest version of Gnucash (as a user, I have been 
using Gnucash since a very, very early version).
 I really appreciate the work & effort the GnuCash team
puts in. I just wish my Bank would embrace OFX (export) 
QIF has been a problem for some time, so I use .csv 
import instead. (fyi, the QIF date is in the form dd MMM yyyy,
& the text Month seems to confuse the issue: not worth 
worrying abt as long as .csv works. My other acct uses
OFX, & it is so much easier.)

 Merry Christmas, to all so inclined.
regards, Doug in Sunny Australia.



On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:11:29 -0800
John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> > On Dec 18, 2024, at 15:56, AP <gnucash at inml.grue.cc> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 08:01:01PM -0800, John Ralls wrote:  
> >> I’d made an error when I wrote bit in the bundler script that derives the version to pass to the setup-generator: It gets the release instal directories, sorts them, and grabs the last one. The problem with that is that it’s a lexical sort so if say 5.8, 5.9. and 5.10 directories exist then the sort order is
> >> Gnucash-5.10
> >> Gnucash-5.8
> >> Gnucash-5.9
> >> And the last one is 5.9. https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-windows/commit/317b10b7d99a4ae8281e866efc4403b9b7624320 changes it to sort them by creation date. That’s still not perfect, of course, because someone might come along and builds an earlier version by hand it will have the last time stamp.  
> > 
> > I asked the Lord God AI (as I'm not a powershell user) and it came up with this:
> > 
> > --- 8<---
> > # Define an array of strings with non-version related text before the version numbers
> > $versionStrings = @(
> >    'ProductA v1.2.3',
> >    'ProductB v1.10.0',
> >    'ProductC v1.3.5',
> >    'ProductD v2.0.0'
> > )
> > 
> > # Extract the version part using a regular expression and sort by the extracted version
> > $sortedVersions = $versionStrings | Sort-Object {
> >    if ($_ -match 'v([\d\.]+)$') {
> >        [version]$matches[1]
> >    }
> > }
> > 
> > # Display the sorted versions
> > $sortedVersions
> > --- 8<---
> > 
> > Don't know how right it is but if it's not right in and of itself then, maybe, it's right enough to get you most of the way there. :)
> >   
> 
> You don’t show the output, but the result of the regex match is still a string so I think it will still sort lexically, i.e. 1.10.0, 1.2.3, 1.3.5, 2.0.0.
> 
> This S-O suggests using a function called System.Version: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/711107/sorting-powershell-versions. Dunno if it works on two-digit version numbers. My default approach in most languages would be to do two captures, ‘(\d+).(\d+)$’ and cast each to int and do a two-level sort.  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71232189/how-to-sort-multilevel-list suggests how to do the multi-level sort part. 
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
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