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

[David Hampton]

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.

David