Let's really release 2.4.0 soon

[David G. Hamblen]

On 12/16/2010 08:55 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Thursday 16 December 2010, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> "David T."<sunfish62 at yahoo.com>  writes:
>>>> Yes, but the documentation can generally be released after
>>>> 2.4.0.  IMHO.
>>> Sure. I was mainly expressing concern about the file format issues
>>> that the new version raises. There has been work on this bug by
>>> Cristian Marchi today, and it looks like my concerns are addressed by
>>> his work.
>> I'm sorry, which file format issues?  Could you refer to Bug #s?
>>
>>> David
>> -derek
> ... that would be https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635357
>
> It relates to the new Save as... and Open... dialogs not being documented yet.
> The user can now choose 4 different 'file formats' to save GnuCash data in:
> xml, sqlite3, mysql and postgres.
A month or so back, there was a thread about libdbi0 v0.8.3 causing 
sqlite3 to read all zeroes, with a possible runtime check being 
implemented (bug 611936).  This should at least be noted in the 
documentation (maybe in the release notes?).


> I agree with David that this should at least be mentioned in the
> documentation. Open and Save are very visible GUI elements, so having four
> options (with different parameters depending on the option) will confuse new
> users. Cristian has already provided some patches, so the documentation will
> likely be ready by this weekend.
>
> Geert
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