Question about Lots and Capital Gains

[Charles Day]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > "Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Derek, can you be more specific about what is incomplete in the lots
> > stuff?
> > > Maybe a few people will be inspired to dig into the code. (Perhaps
> > this level
> > > of detail should be moved to the gnucash-devel list.)
> >
> > Umm.. I can try, but I didn't do the work so you're testing the memory
> > of someone who watched it from the sidelines.  IIRC the lot scrubber
> > didn't always do the right thing, didn't handle all cases, and also
> > IIRC it didn't do the proper thing if you already had manual
> > cap-gains splits.
> >
> > In other words, IIRC, it corrupted your data in strange ways.
> >
>
> OK, thanks. Sounds like an appropriate first step is for someone to just
> test it really well and see what works, what doesn't, and what can be
> approved.  -Charles
>
I meant "improved".

> Cheers,
> > > Charles
> >
> > -derek
> >
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