On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 09:02 +1100, Conrad Canterford wrote:
> For what its worth, I think the OO solution of a "Save As" with warning
> dialog (which in my experience /always/ comes up) is the (longer term)
> way to go. Not that I recommend copying Microsoft at all, but this is
> the way they do things too, and it is an approach users are familiar
> with. I'd also not be fussed if it didn't make it into 2.0, since I'm
> very familiar with the gnucash way of doing things.
>
Actually if you're comparing with M$ I can comment here. I used M$ Money
for a long time before migrating to GnuCash and several times they
upgraded with a new version to a non-backwards compatible new file and
left the old one as money.old-ver# (forget the exact name). Money
handled upgrades very differently to the likes of word, etc as it used a
jet db and not a binary file format.
> I do think it should be prominent somewhere (on the release advices at
> least) that datafiles saved with new features cannot be loaded into 1.8
> AT ALL. I think a start-up dialog probably isn't a bad idea either since
> (no offence Wilddev) I suspect many people don't really read the release
> notices.
>
Er, none taken tho I'm not sure what I should be offended about ;-)
We can easily add to release notices about the incompatibility. To be
honest I think the startup dialog really should be no more than if you
open a 1.8 file then display 'you wont be able to open this file from
now on in 1.8' and then save a copy in the old format. _If_ its possible
and easy to do that.
Chris
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