Am Samstag, 20. November 2010 schrieb John Ralls: > > I have one question: are we shipping 2.4.0 with default backend SQL or > > XML? > > I think we are (and should) leaving the default as XML for 2.4. There isn't > a substantial benefit for the ordinary user to switch to sql until we (1) > rewrite (or replace) qof so that it doesn't need to lock the whole > database and (2) rework the backend to make better use of sql's data > integrity features (which means moving those functions out of qof).
Absolutely. The default "Save As" format is and should be XML, as long as (like John said) SQL doesn't provide any user-visible benefit for the normal user, and as long as we haven't seen this backend in error-free operation for a time frame that starts to get comparable to the XML backend. Regards, Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
