Sorry I've been MIA lately, life has been insanely busy for me. Seen as how Nov 14th has come and gone and I'm flying out to look for a new place to live in Denver friday for a week, I don't think a release this month is feasable. I will try to get organized to get a release out the 4th or 5th of december so people will have at least the changes.
Thanks for this Christian Chris On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 13:50 +0100, Christian Stimming wrote: > DRAFT > > This is a proposed draft for the release announcement of the (hopefully) > upcoming 1.8.10 release. I thought it might make life easier for wilddev > if I already summarize some points from the ChangeLog. I thought the > release announcement should probably be rather short to read, but since > the gnome2 question will immediately be asked, we should answer this FAQ > right up front. > > Also, the HBCI online banking library change is quite a big issue for > the people involved, so I would like to have this pointed out already in > the announcement. > > Here's what we might send out as release announcement: > > -- snip -- > > The GnuCash development team proudly announces a new stable release of > the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software. > > FAQ: "Is this a gnome2 application?" A: "No." This release still belongs > to GnuCash's 1.8.x series which is not yet ported to gtk2/gnome2. Read > more below. > > New features in 1.8.10: > > - HBCI online banking improved and ported to the new library AqBanking. > Those who are using HBCI online banking need to perform some extra > steps when upgrading, see http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCash > (or in German: http://www.linuxwiki.de/GnuCash ) > - OFX import improved and based on the new libofx version 0.7, which > gives Microsoft OFC support among other things > - Added saving and restoring of customized reports > > Improvements and bugs fixed: > > - Updated Brazilian Portugese, British English, Czech, Dutch, French, > German, Italian, Russian translations > - HTML export of transaction report improved > - Reports and accounts with zero balance work nicer > - Problems with libltdl3 resolved > - Improved performance when opening large register windows > - Checque printing for Quicken cheques added > - Fixes for the x64_64 platform > - Fixes for the new g-wrap 1.9 > - C99/C89 compatibility problems resolved > > FAQ: "Is this a gnome2 application?" A: "No." This release still belongs > to GnuCash's 1.8.x series which is not yet ported to gtk2/gnome2. In > other words, this release is still based on gtk1.2/gnome1. The > developers are working on a gtk2/gnome2 version of GnuCash, but it still > takes a lot of time. See > http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashPortingStatus for the > status of the Gtk2 port. GnuCash makes use of several custom widgets as > well as the Guppi graphing library. To port to gtk2 involves rewriting > those widgets (e.g. the ledger, or the account hierarchy which uses > GtkCTree) into the appropriate GTK2 widgets and would require the > changing of the graphing code to probably use Jody's new > gnome-office-graph code in Gnumeric (Guppi was never ported to gtk2 and > is a dead project). But given that the GnuCash team is extremely short > on programmers, the process has to exist in parallel to existing product > improvements, resulting in a very gradual porting process. If you can > code C, by all means, volunteer your time, see > http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashDevelopment > > -- snip -- > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > -- RedHat Certified Engineer #807302549405490. Checkpoint Certified Security Expert 2000 & NG -------------------------------------------- |^| | | |^| | |^| | | Life out here is raw | | |^| | But we will never stop | |_|_| | We will never quit | / __> | cause we are Metallica |/ / | \ / | | -------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
