On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 6:24 PM Dave Hayes <d...@jetcafe.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 00:21:57 -0600 > R Losey <rlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was just expressing concern that the last few releases seem far more > > bug-ridden than I remember any of the 4.x releases being. > > Speaking as a long time gnucash user and an active computer scientist, > I'd like to point out that some of these bugs are in the toolkits and > libraries > that gnucash uses. Open source has always suffered from this idea: a > toolkit > that seemed awesome a while ago can experience extreme technical debt due > to > the rapid movement of the software industry. In some cases, said toolkit > can > actually become detrimental to projects that use it. > > This is why (unless you are actually a gnucash dev) trying to > quantitatively > measure the project's "goodness" is quite likely an exercise in subjective > futility. :) > > Just my $0.02 USD. > Fair enough, but I don't agree. Yes, each release has some minor problems associated with it, and often it IS related to underlying toolkits. But 5.4 left a process running on Windows, which kept the lock file open, and generally confused users. This is not a toolkit issue. And now 5.5 has some serious issues with Scheduled Transactions. These are clearly GnuCash bugs, and I don't recall problems like this in previous releases. For years, I've always been able to update to the latest release, and now I've had to skip two in a row. That **may** be merely subjective. Overall, I think GnuCash is a great program; I'm grateful to the developers for it, and I hope it is never abandoned. My intent was to note that the last two releases have had fairly serious bugs -- I recall an earlier 5.x release that actually needed a second release to fix some problem. -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
