Now I remember that I intended to suggest running tests in virtual machines so there were no issues with one spoiling the other. I did not do that here as I have not set up any virtual machines with windows guests.
David C On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 12:54 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com > wrote: > 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
