Nikos, As you see in the thread about reports being slow to open I am switching between release 2.6.18-3 and release 2.7.3 on a Windows computer. That is not the same as doing it in Linux.
My experience in Windows is that I am using the Windows Installer to do complete replacements so the process is very tedious. I also noticed that installing 2.7.3 broke the F::Q stock price retrieval for 2.7.3 and re-installing 2.6.18-3 did not fix it until I manually re-inserted my Alpha Vantage key into the environment file. I used test copies of my data file so that I had my intact data file to return to after testing. I had to be very careful about which copy I was opening because all the files have the same name to test the process of opening many tabs and reports. The first time release 2.7.3 touches an existing file it performs some conversion steps on the file and on the way certain program settings are stored, so I initially had to open the data file twice and it changed size a tad in the process, although there were no changes to content beyond 1 date change to trigger an uncompressed file save. Release 2.7.3 looks very nice in Windows except in my case the font size grew so that I could no longer see as much text in the descriptions and memos. It does not load help files yet, and it has several rough edges to clean up before being called production release. Back to the slow to load title of that thread: I was not able to test the exact problem of having an additional period during loading where windows reported that the program was not responding, other than the fact that I did not notice that during my tests of either release. I conjecture that my particular data file does not trigger that issue, or I was too focussed on other parts of the test to notice it.. My tests were not carefully controlled. David C On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Nikos Charonitakis <nik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all > For testing reasons i want to run 2.7.3 I compiled and install it in > my fedora 27 laptop where i regularly use the stable version. I > installed 2.7.3 in my home directory ~/gnucash/unstable but I > hesitate to run it, i am afraid messing anything with my stable > version (.gnucash in home dir). So what to do? run it? anything to > watch? > > Thanks in advance > Nikos > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
