> On Nov 20, 2014, at 10:35 PM, Wm <wm+...@tarrcity.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:23:38 <9a4e0683-21e6-4e34-ac60-90f5cd414...@ceridwen.us> > John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> > >> >> On Nov 20, 2014, at 4:01 PM, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> Folks, >>> >>> I would like to start by saying that I remain in awe of the ongoing >>> development effort put forth by the team and community with this software. >>> It really is amazing. >>> >>> I am not a developer, and am unable to contribute to the programming cause. >>> However, the problems with the 2.6.4 release (especially under Windows) has >>> led to the unfortunate situation that many users are being advised NOT to >>> install the latest version of GnuCash. >>> >>> While this was a reasonable solution in the short term, the problems seem >>> to have gotten drawn out. >>> >>> Given that circumstance, is there any way to send out a "2.6.5" that >>> materially contains the last working version of GnuCash (i.e. 2.6.3)? I >>> think it would alleviate a lot of confusion for users. >> >> David, >> >> Your concerns are valid, but the Windows problems aren’t with GnuCash code. >> The short version is that we broke the Windows build system and can’t at the >> moment create a working Windows GnuCash to distribute, regardless of the >> GnuCash version. > > ... and 2.6.4-2 isn't broken for everyone, it is in alternate daily use here > on WinXP SP3. e.g. I might use 2.6.3 Portable for a report I've already set > up and 2.6.4-2 if I'm trying out a new one. Because of the way PortableApps > store settings the two versions happily co-exist and use the same data, > though not at the same time, obviously. >
You might prefer the latest maint build from http://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/ to 2.6.4-2. The maint build won't crash on quit. It's problem is that it displays only text reports, no graphs. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
