r15094 - gnucash/branches/gda-dev - Initial commit of initial gda backend framework. See GDA_STATUS.

[Herbert Thoma]

David Hampton wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 10:12 +0100, Herbert Thoma wrote:
> 
>> I don't remember any more. But what did we do back at 1.2? 1.4? 1.6?
>> when we switched from binary fromat to xml? I don't think that
>> the new version was able to wirte the old binary format.
>>
>> This does not mean that we should do it the same way now.
>> I will probably switch to SQLite asap, but I would not like
>> this to happen automatically without my explicit consent.
> 
> And what happens if you say "no, don't convert me to sql yet".  Are you
> unable to save in the new version?  This is exactly why Gnucash should
> support writing the XML file for at least one release after the new SQL
> back end is introduced.

Yes, I agree.

We just need a file type selector (XML/SQLile/(maybe Postgres/MySQL/Oracle))
in the SaveAs dialog. I guess that's the easy part ;-).

  Herbert.

> David
> 
> 

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