On zaterdag 8 oktober 2011, Geert Janssens wrote: > I'm working on introducing full credit note support in GnuCash [1]. After > thinking it through for a long time I came to the conclusion I will need to > add an extra parameter to the invoice object that has to be saved and > restored from the data file. > > I could use a new kvp, so older versions of GnuCash won't have any problems > with this. The thing is though that credit notes require changes as such a > fundamental level in de business logic that older GnuCash versions will > probably choke on them anyway, or create wrong results. So backward > compatibility is not really feasible. > > And since kvp's are not nice for the sql backend, I think it will be better > to use a true field. > > I never added a field, and we have two major backend technologies now. So > I'm asking some input on how to best proceed. > > Derek suggested on irc to make it an optional field so that if credit notes > are not used, older versions of GnuCash can still work with the data file. > I can imagine this with the xml backend, but is such a thing possible with > the sql backend as well ? > > Geert
...and the [1] was supposed to refer to http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Credit_Notes _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
