Sorry Derek & John, I stand corrected.
Regards, Adrien > On Aug 16, 2018, at 10:06 AM, Derek Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > Adrien Monteleone <[email protected]> writes: > >> Since .gnucash is not really proprietary or somehow a special format >> from XML then I agree, the extension should be .xml. > > The benefit of using .gnucash is that the gnucash-xml file can be > auto-loaded into GnuCash and not a generic XML parser. > >> Combine this with the fact that the sqlite version of the file ALSO >> uses the .gnucash extension can make for some confusion. At a glance, > > Confusion for whom? A user shouldn't really care whether a gnucash data > file is XML or SQLite -- it should just work. The benefit of both being > named .gnucash is that the user doesn't need to be told "back up *this* > filename if you're using XML, and back up this *other* filename if > you're using SQL". Instead, we can just say "back up XXX.gnucash" and > it just works. > >> you can’t tell what the format is. You can’t even tell until you try >> to open it with something other than GnuCash. (or you notice that >> GnuCash doesn’t offer a Save option) The only reason I know which is >> which is I had to use filename.xml.gnucash to tell them apart. That’s >> a usability bug in my opinion. I don’t know how hard that is to >> change, but I’d support the move. > > Why would you want to open it in something else? Why should we care > about supporting that? > >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > -derek > > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > [email protected] PGP key available > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
