> On Mar 25, 2018, at 5:33 PM, Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > > On 2018-03-25 19:54, John Ralls wrote: > >> The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.8, >> the ninth release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 3.0. This >> release is a Release Candidate: If no bugs requiring major work are >> reported the next release will be 3.0. > > John, > > Am I correct in assuming that the release is entirely self-contained in > Windows, and doesn't install anything in C;\Windows\System32, > "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files", etc? > > In other words, can I have 2.6.19 and 2.7.8 on the same Windows 7 PC, > simply by installing them to different folders? I'm spending a lot of > time converting seven years of data from a dBase file, and I don't want > to install 2.7.8 if it will interfere with 2.6.19.
Stan, Absolutely yes to the first question. Yes to the second with a couple of warnings: They use the same registry keys and auxiliary file locations, so if you change the preferences in one it will affect the other; that's true if you install them to separate directories or reinstall back-and-forth to the same one. There's also a date-format incompatibility in the SQLite3 backend. It will be resolved with 2.6.20 but you won't be able to open a SQLite3 database with 2.6.19 once it's been written to by 2.7.x. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
