Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-03 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi David, Am 03.12.21 um 20:20 schrieb Dr. David Kirkby: > It depends on the effort to recompile on Linux. If building on linux is > relatively painless, then I will upgrade if I decide to use the software - > I'm still a bit undecided on that. for people uncomfortable with building on linux we

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-03 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Fri, 3 Dec 2021 at 18:39, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > The Wiki section on upgrading should help you with compatibility. > > For a few major releases now, the policy is that the last minor release > of a series will be able to read a file from the next major

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The Wiki section on upgrading should help you with compatibility. For a few major releases now, the policy is that the last minor release of a series will be able to read a file from the next major release. So whatever the last 3.x was, *should* be able to read a 4.x file. But if there is no

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-03 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Fri, 3 Dec 2021 at 16:20, David Carlson wrote: > Actually the News page contains a fairly > accurate history of the changes in each release. > Thank you. There are a huge number of changes. I've just downloaded the Windows version, and will look at

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-03 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 10:20:49AM -0600, David Carlson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 8:33 AM Chris Green wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 02:12:04PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 15:48, Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 03:30:02PM

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-03 Thread David Carlson
Actually the News page contains a fairly accurate history of the changes in each release. On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 8:33 AM Chris Green wrote: > On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 02:12:04PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 15:48, Chris Green wrote: >

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-03 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 02:12:04PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 15:48, Chris Green wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 03:30:02PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > > I should have added, the particular distribution of Ubuntu I am using is > > > 20.04 LTS, which

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-03 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 15:48, Chris Green wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 03:30:02PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > I should have added, the particular distribution of Ubuntu I am using is > > 20.04 LTS, which installs GnuCash 3.8, which was released almost 2 years > > ago. > > > Which makes

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-03 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 15:48, Chris Green wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 03:30:02PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > I should have added, the particular distribution of Ubuntu I am using is > > 20.04 LTS, which installs GnuCash 3.8, which was released almost 2 years > > ago. > > > Which makes

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-02 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
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Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-01 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 03:30:02PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I should have added, the particular distribution of Ubuntu I am using is > 20.04 LTS, which installs GnuCash 3.8, which was released almost 2 years > ago. > Which makes absolute sense of course because Ubuntu 20.04 LTS was

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-01 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Wed, December 1, 2021 10:30 am, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I should have added, the particular distribution of Ubuntu I am using is > 20.04 LTS, which installs GnuCash 3.8, which was released almost 2 years > ago. > > > > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 15:16, Dr. David Kirkby < >

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I should have added, the particular distribution of Ubuntu I am using is 20.04 LTS, which installs GnuCash 3.8, which was released almost 2 years ago. On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 15:16, Dr. David Kirkby < drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: > I installed GnuCash yesterday on Ubuntu. It reports >

[GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I installed GnuCash yesterday on Ubuntu. It reports drkirkby@canary:~$ gnucash -v GnuCash 3.8 Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29) That seems fairly out of date. Who actually builds the binaries? If there's not a later one available, I will probably build from source code and hope all the libraries