On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 02:06:53PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > *DATA FILE NOTICE* If you are using Scheduled Transactions, the data > > file saved by GnuCash 2.1.2 and higher is *NOT* backward-compatible with > > GnuCash 2.0 anymore. Please make a safe backup of your 2.0 data before > > upgrading to 2.1.2. > > This kind of announcement is extremely problematic from a > redistributor/packager perspective (mine). But maybe it's just the > announcement that's problematic and not the actual change it points to. > > I could interpret this in two ways: > > "If you have an old data file, the new Gnucash will be unable to read > it, and worse, might destroy it." This is a disaster, if true. > > "If you save a data file with the new Gnucash, then an old Gnucash > will be unable to read it." If this is true, then it means that users > who start using the new Gnucash will have committed to the new one, > essentially, for that file, and backups are advised in case going back > to the old Gnucash is needed. > > I would describe both of these by saying that it is "not backward > compatible". Can you clarify which it is?
It's the second of those two interpretations. And it's only a problem for people using scheduled transactions. --Beth Beth Leonard http://www.LeonardFamilyVideos.com _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
