On 24/02/2019 02:53, David T. via gnucash-devel wrote:
While I take exception to Wm's tone and language, I agree with his overall
assessment of the reports and configuration management.
I am happy to apologize to you if someone eventually takes notice. I
will do this by paying for a meal if we ever meet in person.
Storing configuration data separately from the financial data and on a user (as
opposed to a book) basis is questionable.
Yup.
Storing saved reports separately from the financial data and on a user basis
makes no sense at all. A saved report for one file will be meaningless in
another. This issue has come up many times on the lists.
Yup.
The fact that we even need a wiki page dedicated to file and configuration
locations-- let alone one as long and convoluted as the one we have (and which
needs additional diagramming)-- only underscores this problem.
I don't think the person that wrote the page understood what they were
describing. I am sure they were doing their best.
I want to be clear that I am truly grateful that Chris has decided to work on
reports, and I have great respect for his ability to work with Scheme. I've yet
to succeed in either editing an existing report or getting a third party report
installed on my Mac. 13 years of futility on that front!
David T.
I second that, the fact that a diminishing handful of people can read
Scheme is interesting, it isn't a progressive language, the fact that
gnc is dependent on it is regressive.
I have made some small changes to a gnc Scheme report for my own
purposes but when I put them forward for inclusion they were refused.
Presumably because the person that needed to approve them didn't
understand them. The thing I worked out was how to do "end of next
month" and similar for reports.
Sigh
David, I am always unhappy if I upset someone, I often find myself in
the situation of not knowing what else to do as no one listened the
first time.
--
Wm
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