Tip of the day: development version warning ?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am running Gnucash 2.2.1 on Mandriva 2007.1. I rebuilt this Gnucash version 
> myself starting from the source rpms from Mandriva 2008.0, because Mandriva 
> 2007.1 comes by default with GC 2.0.5.
>
> Today when starting Gnucash, I got this tip of the day:
>
> Warning!! This is a DEVELOPMENT version of GnuCash. It probably has lots of 
> bugs and unstable features! If you are looking for a stable personal finance 
> application, you should use the latest release of GnuCash 2.0.
>
> This raises two questions:
>
> * Is my version of Gnucash really a development version ? I thought not, as GC 
> 2.2.1 is the latest stable. According to the about window, my version has 
> been built from svn r16462. Is that a stable version or a development 
> release ?

No, 2.2.x is stable; that tip just wasn't removed prior to release.
It'll be fixed in 2.2.2.

> * Secondly, if I am really using a development version, shouldn't the tip of 
> the day then point me to release 2.2 as the latest stable ?

See above.

> Regards,
>
> Geert

-derek

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