[GNC] Use 4.14 and 5.6 on same file (at different times)

[R Losey]

Certainly I'd trust what John says over what most others say.

On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 2:57 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Richard, it is the conventional wisdom to consider each major release to
> be like the tire deflators at the parking garage exit.  However, John is
> one of the primary developers and he would know if this was an exceptional
> time when it would be ok to back over a major release barrier.  That said,
> there are a variety of issues such that some features may not work
> correctly in one release or another, as discussed at great length here.
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 1:55 PM R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just a very similar question a little while ago (I ran 4.x on Linux and
>> 5.x on Windows & iMac). At that time, they recommended that I use the same
>> major version everywhere, so I used flatpack to bring my Linux system up
>> to
>> 5.x.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 28, 2024 at 11:07 AM Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Will I run into problems if I use both GnuCash 4.14 and 5.6 on the same
>> > file / book?
>> > That is, 4.14 is on my current production Linux system and where I use
>> > Gnucash.
>> > I have installed a later Linux system on a different disk partition and
>> it
>> > has Gnucash 5.6
>> > If I were to use Gnucash 5.6 to enter some data, and then switch back to
>> > 4.14, will the
>> > data / book be OK?
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