ANNOUNCE: book closing beta 2

Tony Bloomfield tonyb.lx at btinternet.com
Sat Aug 23 13:11:55 CDT 2003


>*) Discussion Q: What should the naming convention be for the different 
>   books?  When the XML file backend is used, different books need to be 
>   stored as different files (in order to avoid the performance 
>   penalty of a large file load).  Currently, what's implemented is
>
>   book-1dc750aa3e6fd045c13ac8afb1a9ac03-my-gnucash-file.xac.gml
>
>   where the number is the GUID of the closed book (needed to be able to
>   quickly find the book/file) and 'my-gnucash-file.xac' is the name of
>   the orignial file whose books were closed.

I think a file name which involved the cutoff date would be more useful, e.g. 
my-gnucash-file-pre-20030824.xac

Cheers,
TonyB




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