Project of the Month :-) On 28/11/2014 1:11 PM, "David Carlson" <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/27/2014 12:10 PM, John Ralls wrote: > >> On Nov 27, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Wm <wm+...@tarrcity.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >> Thu, 27 Nov 2014 07:49:26 < > b9ebc2ea-86a4-4c46-8596-426f77d14...@ceridwen.us> John Ralls < > jra...@ceridwen.us> > >> > >>> It could well be that GnuCash 2.6.4-2 doesn't exhibit the hang-on-exit > problem on WinXP. I don't remember if I've tested that. It does hang > reliably on Win7 and 8. > >> I can test on other Win versions tomorrow. > >> > >> What I'm unsure about is the blanket "not working on Win" which is > clearly too broad. > >> > >> If you (not any individual) wanted to screw acceptance of gnc then the > co-incidence of POTM and "actually, it doesn't work on Windows" is getting > on for perfect storm stuff in non-acceptance terms :( > > Wm, > > > > Don't waste your time. I can replicate the problem and I'm actively > working on it (and have been for over a month). That it's a wide-spread > problem is amply attested by the 8 duplicate bug reports we've closed on > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738477. > > > > No one says "it doesn't work on Windows". We say "2.6.4 has some > problems on Windows, Windows users should use 2.6.3". I'd think the impact > on acceptance is far worse when users download 2.6.4 and it's broken. > > > > As for POTM, meh. We're on that list two or three times a year, and > AFAICT it makes no appreciable difference to download rates. I don't have > access to the stats from www.gnucash.org so I don't know if there's any > affect there. > > > > Regards, > > John Ralls > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-devel mailing list > > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > > > I give up, what does POTM mean? My Google search was inconclusive. > > I should clarify my earlier comment. > I have been wanting for quite some time to test many of the other bug > fixes and new features that have been incorporated into the 2.6.x > releases, and I feel that now I can temporarily live with the chart > rendering problem while testing other issues, so I am now starting to do > that. I am finding that 2.6.4 is noticeably nicer than 2.4.13. When I > suggested that other venturesome Windows users might try it, it was > intended to be taken in that context of testing other features. > > I have also done some limited testing in a couple of flavors of Linux > and seen good results, but I have not been able to get my network set up > properly to move copies of files between machines easily. > > That is mostly a problem of getting the various machines to talk to each > other, which has just resisted all my efforts to date. It is supposed > to be very straightforward setups on both the Windows 7 machines and the > Ubuntu, Debian, or even PC-BSD machines, but I keep hitting walls. I > cannot even get the Windows 7 homegroup feature to work between the two > Windows 7 machines. I am about ready to substitute a different router. > I feel much better now after getting that rant out. > > David C > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
