Re: [GNC-dev] Debug build in production?

On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 07:25:49AM -0400, John Ralls wrote: > Sounds like some projects are using asserts in places that more graceful > runtime checks would be more appropriate... Indeed. Also memory-access-checking libraries and the like; and in other ways that I can't recall offhand,

Re: [GNC-dev] Debug build in production?

On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 10:37:22PM +0200, Geert Janssens wrote: > A debug build will tell the compiler to avoid several optimizations. > [thus bigger and slower] Cool; that I'm perfectly OK with. I guess what I mostly had in mind was warnings I've seen in some projects that debug builds are less

[GNC-dev] Debug build in production?

Is there any particular reason to avoid using a CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug build of GnuCash in production? The reason *to* do that, of course, is to have the debugging symbols available in case of need. (This is independent of the choice of which git commit to build *from*; those pros-and-cons I'm

Re: [GNC-dev] Register + Unicode (was Re: emojis everywhere...)

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 02:43:25PM -0400, Eric Siegerman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 03:24:35PM +0200, Geert Janssens wrote: > > It think it's worth reporting as a bug, though of low priority. > > Done: https://[deleted] The emojis in my bug report screwed up my previous at

Re: [GNC-dev] Register + Unicode (was Re: emojis everywhere...)

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 03:24:35PM +0200, Geert Janssens wrote: > It think it's worth reporting as a bug, though of low priority. Done: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795613 Thanks, - Eric ___ gnucash-devel mailing list

Re: [GNC-dev] Bye-bye Unstable

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:29:23AM +0200, Geert Janssens wrote: > In the 2.7 > development cycle we experimented with an extra "unstable" *branch* to do the > unstable releases from. Which is pretty standard practice -- except for the name. Intuitively, I'd expect a branch called "unstable" to

Re: [GNC-dev] Register + Unicode (was Re: emojis everywhere...)

On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 08:20:35PM -0700, John Ralls wrote: > Depends on what you see as the bug. The bug is the inconsistency. I have opinions, for what they're worth, on how it should behave: - Reverting to the old value is better than clobbering to zero; if it can't change the field to

Register + Unicode (was Re: emojis everywhere...)

On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 07:31:38AM -0700, John Ralls wrote: > > On Apr 6, 2018, at 11:11 PM, Wm via gnucash-devel > > wrote: > > gnc 3.0 allows emojis in places I think inappropriate In poking at this, I've discovered some inconsistency in the register's handling of

Re: emojis everywhere, seeking understanding / clarity / opinion

On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 07:31:38AM -0700, John Ralls wrote: > > On Apr 6, 2018, at 11:11 PM, Wm via gnucash-devel > > wrote: > > gnc 3.0 allows emojis in places I think inappropriate > > account names > > account codes > > securities > Filtering for meaning is Way Too

Re: BUILDING_FROM_VCS

On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 11:36:13PM +0100, Geert Janssens wrote: > Make dist is called all the time by developers to test the creation of a dist > tarball, so the info would get updated more frequently then intended. Or it > would require manual intervention, which brings us back at square one.

Re: BUILDING_FROM_VCS

On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 09:00:29AM -0800, John Ralls wrote: > One possible solution would be to test the value of `git remote -v 2> > /dev/null | grep "origin.*(fetch)"`. If it’s either code or the Github mirror > then we set the version from `git describe`, otherwise it’s the ${VERSION} as >

Re: An improvement on the "search list archive" 404's

On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 10:55:05AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > The attachment, while claiming to be an HTML document, just came across > as a text document? Looks like the mailing list sanitized it -- the copy in my Sent folder has the HTML, but the copy I got back has plain text and this

An improvement on the "search list archive" 404's

[Moved from gnucash-user to gnucash-devel] On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 11:30:17AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Eric Siegerman <pub08-...@davor.org> writes: > > I get that there are no immediate plans to (re)implement search > > locally, and that's cool; but more helpful than jus

Re: Intended behavior of automatic decimal point (bug 120940)

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 08:20:50AM +, David T. via gnucash-devel wrote: > I think of the decimal placement as applying to the final number in the field > (as a sort of edit mask, if you will), rather than a preprocessing function > that would apply to every element in an equation. I'm not

Separate-build-directory "make check" fails in po/

Versions: - GnuCash 2.6.11 (and many older versions -- basically as far back as I can build with my current toolchain) - Ubuntu 12.04 - Ubuntu's intltool 0.50.2-2 package I'm getting a "make check" failure when I try to build GnuCash in a separate build directory -- but only if the