Gnucash 1.7.5: problem with files from 1.7.2 version

Christian Stimming stimming@tuhh.de
Mon, 6 Jan 2003 21:25:16 +0100


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On Montag, 6. Januar 2003 17:39, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de> writes:
> > > Ok, this just confirms that we need code to auto-transform the
> > > currency.
> > > OK, who changed this?????????
> >
> > No need to scream here. I did. There was a bug report about it. See
> > the ChangeLog on 2002-11-30.
> >
> :-P
>
> I'm not screaming.  It's just that this is your fault... ;)

Sure. Agreed.

> You might consider a change to src/backend/file/... so when it sees
> ISOXXXX:RUB it auto-converts to ISOXXXX:RUR.  However this wont help
> with postgres backends...

Maybe I have time for this tonight, but maybe not. If not, I'm on a conference 
and out of town soon, so I probably won't have time for hacking on gnucash 
until January 25. Maybe somebody else is quicker to fix this one...

> Note for the future:  changing currencies is Bad.  You can
> add new ones, but changing existing ones break data files.

Ok, we can add "RUB" as a second currency again. This would at least not make 
any existing file break.

Christian
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