Re: ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 2.1.4 Released

2007-06-18 Thread Nathan Buchanan
Windows packages are now available. Since this is a release candidate, please test any and all features that you use. On 6/16/07, Chris Lyttle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GnuCash 2.1.4 released The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.1.4 aka Release Candidate 1, the first

Re: GnuCash 2.1.4 Released

2007-06-18 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
Hi, I have 0,02 NOK input on this. I have been using the unstable version for a while now, and because of a recent but unrelated problem went back to 2.0.5. That version refused to open the file with an error message approximately like unable to parse the XML. I went back to 2.1.4, checked

Re: GnuCash 2.1.4 Released

2007-06-17 Thread Josh Sled
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah, good. Thanks for indulging me. This all sounds like it's exactly the best one can expect, given the necessity of changing the format in the first place. It could be better ... 1.8/2.0 could (non-)silently ignore XML sub-trees that they did

Re: GnuCash 2.1.4 Released

2007-06-17 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Samstag, 16. Juni 2007 23:06 schrieb Thomas Bushnell BSG: *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

Re: GnuCash 2.1.4 Released

2007-06-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 15:44 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: Do you have any suggestions to improve the wording in our announcements in order to avoid further problems with ambiguous message? That would be very helpful. Spell out in excruciating detail the different circumstances and exactly

Re: GnuCash 2.1.4 Released

2007-06-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
*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

Re: Re: GnuCash 2.1.4 Released

2007-06-16 Thread Beth Leonard
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

Re: Re: GnuCash 2.1.4 Released

2007-06-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
It's the second of those two interpretations. And it's only a problem for people using scheduled transactions. Ok, then next question. What exactly happens if a user tries to load a new-format file into an old gnucash? Thomas signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: GnuCash 2.1.4 Released

2007-06-16 Thread Josh Sled
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's the second of those two interpretations. And it's only a problem for people using scheduled transactions. Ok, then next question. What exactly happens if a user tries to load a new-format file into an old gnucash? It will generically

Re: GnuCash 2.1.4 Released

2007-06-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 20:05 -0400, Josh Sled wrote: Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's the second of those two interpretations. And it's only a problem for people using scheduled transactions. Ok, then next question. What exactly happens if a user tries to load a