I'm OK with the first option but suggest instead of December with all the diversions for Christmas it be the end of January. Has it been decided on a minimum Gtk version for master, there are probably some conditional version statements that can be removed and some CSS that I want to change/rename.
Regards, Bob On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 12:37, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh and also: > > I'll wish to transition *all* html-acct-table based reports to force them > to do subtotals properly. > > There are currently 9 different combinations for subtotals while displaying > accounts, depending on the Display settings "parent account balances" and > "parent account subtotals"; the 'canonically-tabbed' option should be > deprecated; and either parent account include children-account subtotals, > or parent subtotals displayed after their children group. i.e. 9 > combinations reduced to 2 options. > > I'll hope this can be achieved for 4.0. > > > On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 03:07, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi John > > My plans for 4.0 will be > > - remove *all* deprecated exported functions and deprecated code paths > > - enable book-accounting-period preference > > > > I'd urge anyone with custom reports will observe the console or > tracefile, > > and watch for any scheme deprecation warnings while running latest > versions > > of GnuCash -- old functions are due a major cleanup. If there are, please > > let us know via devel or bugzilla (and attach custom report). > > > > On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 19:12, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > >> Back in the run-up to releasing GnuCash 3.0 when we adopted the > two-digit > >> release numbering we also said that we wanted to accelerate the major > >> release tempo to 2-3 years instead of the 4 years that had gone between > the > >> previous several major releases. > >> > >> Well, it's two years later. We've added almost 1500 commits, but they've > >> all been to the maint branch. There are a few low-effort changes on the > >> table that would fit better into a new stable series, including more > report > >> system updates from Chris Lam and the report menu rearrangement Geert > >> surfaced last week. > >> > >> The first alternative is to finish those up, merge them onto master, and > >> release 4.0 in December as we optimistically planned 2 years ago. Along > >> with that change we'd bump the C++ standard requirement to 14 so that we > >> can use initializer lists correctly. That will require GCC 5.0 or Clang > >> 3.4, which would raise the baseline distros to Ubuntu 16.04, Debian 9, > Mint > >> 18, and Fedora 25. RHEL/Centos users would need to install devtoolset-7 > or > >> devtoolset-8. OpenSuSE users would need to install one of the GCC > upgrade > >> packages. MacOS minimum would bump to 10.10 (Yosemite). MSYS2's > toolchain > >> is consistently bleeding-edge so Windows builds wouldn't be affected. > >> > >> The second alternative is to revert to the 4-year major release tempo, > >> continuing the current 3.x stable series until the end of 2021 and > hoping > >> that we've made sufficient progress on the major goals by then. > >> > >> The third alternative is to not have a fixed major release schedule at > >> all and instead to wait until the goals set out in > >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Schedule#Goals_for_4.0 are > >> completed. > >> > >> Geert and I, having discussed this on IRC, are inclined toward the first > >> alternative because it allows us to update the minimum versions of > several > >> dependencies. > >> > >> Regards, > >> John Ralls > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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