<marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com> writes:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:12:33 -0500, Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu> wrote:
>> Adding new account types is... challenging... Mostly it's a
>> problem because of backwards compatibility.. You need to make sure
>> that you add the logic for the new account well before you add the
>> code to support using it.
>
> Just to clarify this:
> Is it policy for gnucash-development that you shall be able to open
> files written by newer versions with a reasonably new but older
> version of gnucash?
> Did I understand your "well before" correctly?
Yes, you did. And with few exceptions have we broken that
rule. We did break it with Scheduled Transactions between....
1.8->2.0? Or maybe 2.0->2.2 (I forget which). However
we really want reasonable "new" releases of version N-1 to
be able to read data files created by release N.
> Marcus
-derek
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