2.1.x and allow_file_incompatability

[David Reiser]

As one of those who squawked the loudest about the incompatibility, I  
can say that I'm willing to be unable to go back now. 2.1 works well  
enough. I'll just save one of my backups to work with in the case of  
fink queries.


On 30 Apr 2007, at 7:12:46 PM, Josh Sled wrote:

> There are two places we use the gconf
> key /apps/gnucash/dev/allow_file_incompatibility:
>
> - Scheduled Transactions (FreqSpec->Recurrence)
> - ROOT Account Group
>
> I propose that we flip the default for these two immediately before  
> the
> 2.1.2 release.  Thus, starting with 2.1.2, files would no longer be
> backward compatible.
>
> I suppose another way we can go is to /strongly encourage/ people to
> manually set the gconf key, but that just seems to delay the  
> inevitable.
> Also, at some point I actually need to remove the FreqSpec code, which
> will require the flag to be set.  I'd rather do it sooner than later.
>
>
> Thoughts?  Objection?
>
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