Okay, I’ll see what I can do. First, is to figure out how to get that flatpak installed from that link.
I’ve never messed with Flatpaks, but I’m guessing I need to add a repo and then I should be able to install. Researching now... Regards, Adrien > On Apr 9, 2020 w15d100, at 9:20 PM, Christopher Lam > <christopher....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Deadline is 11 April at noon GMT, so, about 34 hours from now. > > For both: existing datafile and especially 4.x-featured datafile (in bug > report). > > Please test: > - creation of budget amounts > - use estimate to prefill cells > - all totals in all 5 account types A/L/Inc/Exp/Eq behave appropriately > - budget.scm report (optionally other budget reports but these are lower > priority) and especially difference column. > > On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 at 02:16, Adrien Monteleone > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Thank You! This makes it so much easier to test. I’ll give the flatpak a spin > and see what I find. I still haven’t set up a build environment for Mac yet. > (and watching a recent thread on the subject makes it look daunting compared > to Linux) > > This is a busy weekend for me though. What kind of time frame do you have and > is there something in particular you’re looking to find. (other than just > loosely that the totals appear to work) > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Apr 9, 2020 w15d100, at 9:10 PM, Christopher Lam > > <christopher....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 2020-04-07 nightly available at https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/ > > flatpaks available at https://code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak/maint/ - use > > between 2020-04-04 and 2020-04-10 > > > > On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 at 01:38, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> This topic is about budgets. > >> > >> We now know that budgets are currently inherently flawed: they *assume* > >> that sign-reversal = credit-accounts, and do not work well at all with any > >> other sign-reversal option. In addition, there was a feature request (bug > >> 781345) that introduced budget equity into the equation, and I still do not > >> know whether a budget equity amount is a correct approach. > >> > >> In 4.x series there is a planned *fix* which will scan budget amounts, > >> use heuristics to determine the most likely sign-reversal approach used > >> during budget creation, internally unreverse the amounts, and upgrade the > >> datafile so that it cannot be damaged by 3.7 or earlier. > >> > >> Therefore 3.8 was the first release which could handle both old and fixed > >> budget amounts. Unfortunately, the interpretation of budget signs was/is > >> very difficult, which explained the switch to > >> asset/liability/equity/income/expense totals, which are impervious to > >> budget signs. Unfortunately users missed the "Remaining to Budget" > >> facility. > >> > >> Therefore 3.9 was, during development, tested with > >> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/630 and was deemed "good enough" > >> to fix to restore the remaining to budget total. Unfortunately the > >> liability budget amount issue was tested incorrectly. > >> > >> For a week, the git-maint contained a candidate fix, discussed in > >> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797659 -- but there is > >> insufficient beta testing on the budgets for now. So, 3.10 will retain 3.9 > >> behaviour unless the fix is fully tested. > >> > >> Conclusion: this is a call for beta testers, using the 2020-04-07 nightly > >> (the only one with the fix), to test both their datafiles and the > >> *4.x-featured* datafile attached in the bug report. Please *especially* > >> test the liability and equity totals, both with existing datafile and > >> featured datafile. > >> > >> Flame away. I will try to be available throughout the day for testing. > >> Win32 users have only 1 build to test, Linux users may also build from > >> 882fd22ca rather than git-maint which has returned to 3.9 behaviour. I'm > >> not sure how MacOS users can test. > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
