Thanks Phil and Firefly. I'll take a look at the new 2.3.8 with non-critical data. Like Firefly I like the idea of the xml backend, for the same reasons, but hot damn! An sql backend has to open a Pandora's box of exciting possibilities.
I'll take a look at the yearend procedure now, and see what it does and doesn't do based on Firefly's comments. Forgot to say that I think Gnucash is so useful for transaction entry and I'm really pleased with it. Thanks a lot to all the developers and the friendly people on this list who help out. //James On Dec 30, 2009, at 20:00 , Phil Longstaff wrote: > As far as major pieces for 2.4, the last thing is webkit on windows > (webkit on linux/mac seem to work fine, webkit on windows has some > really bad bugs - fonts unreadable if you print a report). I'm working > on that now, and hope soon to either have a fix or else we'll need to > pull webkit out on windows and go back to gtkhtml. > > 2.4 will support SQL to an sqlite3 db file, or a local or remote mysql > or postgresql db. I've been using the sqlite3 backend quite > successfully, but don't use all of the features. There are still some > bugs that need to be fixed. Even after they are fixed, the decision is > to stay with the XML backend by default, but allow the user to save into > an SQL file and go from there. Note that gnucash is *not* a database > app, and there is no multi-user capability. > > As far as target date goes... I hope to resolve webkit/windows within > the next 2 weeks - either have a version that allows you to print, or > else go back to gtkhtml on windows. Then, a few releases for string > freeze/translation and fixing critical bugs. Maybe end of April? > > Phil > > On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 19:12 +0100, James Wilde wrote: >> I use 2.2.9 and note that work is now progressing on 2.3.x, heading towards >> 2.4 stable. >> >> I understand that 2.4 will be able to use a SQL backend. Will it continue >> to support the xml backend? Which of these alternatives is considered the >> way to go? Is there a target date for 2.4? >> >> TIA >> >> //James >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> 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. > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
