GnuCash 2.1.4 Released

[Christian Stimming]

Am Samstag, 16. Juni 2007 23:06 schrieb Thomas Bushnell BSG:
> > *DATA FILE NOTICE* If you are using Scheduled Transactions, the data
> > file saved by GnuCash 2.1.2 and higher is *NOT* backward-compatible with
> > GnuCash 2.0 anymore. Please make a safe backup of your 2.0 data before
> > upgrading to 2.1.2.
>
> This kind of announcement is extremely problematic from a
> redistributor/packager perspective (mine).  But maybe it's just the
> announcement that's problematic and not the actual change it points to.

As already written in earlier responses, the meaning should have been as 
follows:

>   "If you save a data file with the new Gnucash, then an old Gnucash
> will be unable to read it."  If this is true, then it means that users
> who start using the new Gnucash will have committed to the new one,
> essentially, for that file, and backups are advised in case going back
> to the old Gnucash is needed.

Do you have any suggestions to improve the wording in our announcements in 
order to avoid further problems with ambiguous message? That would be very 
helpful.

Christian