Budgets and inconsistent handling of account sign reversal.

[Jeff Kletsky]

On 2/23/2010 12:44 PM, Christian Stimming wrote:
> [...]
> You can always add kvp_frame entries at some of gnucash's top-level objects,
> like the Book, Account, Transaction, or Split. See e.g. the Notes field of an
> Account in xaccAccountSetNotes / xaccAccountGetNotes in engine/Account.c.
>
> The kvp data is transparently read and written again by all earlier versions.
> At least for XML, this is currently our most efficient solution when adding
> new fields without breaking backwards compatiblity.
>
>    

Appreciate the pointers as to where to consider looking. I've been 
looking at using "user preferences" and that seemed to work. Always open 
to suggestions.

> [...]
>> Is there supposed to be guaranteed backward compatibility for anything
>> but the XML backend?
>>      
> As Derek said: The previous stable series 2.2.x only had XML backend, so the
> new backends don't have to be backwards compatible to anything. It would be a
> good time to build in some functionality to offer such a guarantee in the
> future, though...
>
>    

Good to know -- I recall something about PostgreSQL or some other older 
option. Cutting down the test matrix is always a good thing!

Looking forward to making some meaningful contributions here as I learn 
to love gnc-numerics and all their friends.