data compatiblity 2.3.x and 2.2.x

2009-08-21 Thread David Reiser
There is already a data incompatibility taking a 2.3 or trunk datafile back to 2.2.9. It doesn't refuse to open, but if you use scheduled transactions, you'll have to edit every one when you take the file back to 2.2.9. All of the Next Occurrences turn into "Never" when you take the file ba

Wish list for GnuCash Windows XP

2009-08-21 Thread Norman Yeh
Dear GC Experts and Developers, I am NO accountant and NO programmer, and use GnuCash (GC) under Windows XP with SP3 for personal finances. As GC is quickly evolving into a stable 2.4, I would like to request the following features. 1. a "smart update" function that retrieves and installs patch

Re: 2.3.4 xml files cannot be opened by 2.2.x anymore (OSX)

2009-08-21 Thread John Ralls
On Aug 21, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Christian Stimming wrote: However, this means our released version 2.3.4 produces XML files which cannot be read by any version before that, including any 2.2.x, or 2.3.0 up to 2.3.2. This state shouldn't last very long. I'd propose to release yet another vers

Re: 2.3.4, 2.3.5 and beyond - notice of upcoming string freeze

2009-08-21 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Freitag, 21. August 2009 19:38 schrieb Phil Longstaff: > In 2.3.4, I worked to get all of the sql table changes in. The schema is > now, basically, frozen except for really important changes. > > In about 2 weeks, I want to release 2.3.5. This will be the release at > which strings will be fro

Re: 2.3.4 xml files cannot be opened by 2.2.x anymore (?) (Re: Db structure)

2009-08-21 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Freitag, 21. August 2009 18:03 schrieb Phil Longstaff: > I think I was moving too quickly and didn't stop to really read what you > wrote. I went on what I thought you said. I'll go back and re-read what > you wrote. Ok, it's fine now. I've already committed the revert (r18268); I think the

2.3.4, 2.3.5 and beyond - notice of upcoming string freeze

2009-08-21 Thread Phil Longstaff
In 2.3.4, I worked to get all of the sql table changes in. The schema is now, basically, frozen except for really important changes. In about 2 weeks, I want to release 2.3.5. This will be the release at which strings will be frozen so that translation work can be done. After that, I think I

Re: GnuCash OSX

2009-08-21 Thread Martin Preuss
Hi, On Freitag, 21. August 2009, John Ralls wrote: > On Aug 21, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Charles Day wrote: [...] > > Yes, I believe it should still work fine without a front end if the > > setup is > > already there. Sucks if you aren't already set up though. (I haven't > > been > > able to get Qt3 or Q

Re: GnuCash OSX

2009-08-21 Thread John Ralls
On Aug 21, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Charles Day wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:44 PM, John Ralls wrote: On Aug 20, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Charles Day wrote: Sweet! Since it is built for quartz, does it include aqbanking, and if so, which version of Qt was used? It does include aqbanking, but

Re: 2.3.4 xml files cannot be opened by 2.2.x anymore (?) (Re: Db structure)

2009-08-21 Thread Derek Atkins
Phil, IMHO 2.3/2.4 should not write anything new into the pure XML areas. However, you can teach it to /read/ any new tags you want. Then in 2.5/2.6/3.0 we can have it write those new tags. In terms of reading unknown tags, I think it's fine to teach 2.3/2.4 to read unknown tags but where do you

Re: 2.3.4 xml files cannot be opened by 2.2.x anymore (?) (Re: Db structure)

2009-08-21 Thread Phil Longstaff
I think I was moving too quickly and didn't stop to really read what you wrote. I went on what I thought you said. I'll go back and re-read what you wrote. Rather than reading those specific tags, how about, for any object, unknown tags are read as slots. The values could either always be st

Re: 2.3.4 xml files cannot be opened by 2.2.x anymore (?) (Re: Db structure)

2009-08-21 Thread Derek Atkins
Christian Stimming writes: > The use case for loading a 2.3 or 2.4 file into 2.2 again is rather > common: Someone runs the new version for testing and in order to do > thorough testing he uses his live data, but then for whatever reason > doesn't like the current state of the new version and pre

Re: GnuCash OSX

2009-08-21 Thread Charles Day
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:44 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Charles Day wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:20 PM, John Ralls wrote: >> >> On Aug 19, 2009, at 5:36 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: >> >> >> Hopefully you can upload the 2.2.9 DMG in the next few days. >> >> >> It'

Re: gnucash request

2009-08-21 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Gabriel Gabak Technologies writes: > >> hi >> I m Gabriel and i would like to watch some video tutorial about this >> nice software can it be posible? > > This is a user question and should have been asked on Gnucash-User. > I'm afraid there i

Re: MySQL sync

2009-08-21 Thread Marcus Wolschon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Atkins schrieb: > Marcus, > > Marcus Wolschon writes: > >> There must be a way without violating 1st normal form and storing >> everything twice. >> Maybe an "updated"-timstamp or something may help. > > Maybe... I was thinking about ways to

2.3.4 xml files cannot be opened by 2.2.x anymore (?) (Re: Db structure)

2009-08-21 Thread Christian Stimming
This seems to be the unfortunate fall-out of what has been discussed here: http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2009-August/025964.html and implemented in r18246. The change was: "Store account "hidden" and "placeholder" flags as booleans in the account record and with new an