Can't open 2.2.9 files in 2.3.11 (fedora)

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 1 June 2010, Colin Law wrote:
> On 1 June 2010 15:45, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 1 June 2010, Colin Law wrote:
> >>...
> >> Also note, in case you did not realise, that 2.3.x versions are
> >> development versions not recommended for 'production' use.
> >
> > Correct, but F13 ships gnucash 2.3.x by default. The maintainer (Bill
> > Nottingham) had hoped gnucash 2.4 would have been released before F13
> > shipped, but that didn't happen. He asked on the devel list what to do
> > for F13. The advice given was to ship with 2.3.x anyway as we are nearing
> > the end of the development cycle, and to ship an update as soon as
> > gnucash 2.4 is officially released. So that's what he did.
> 
> That is no doubt true, but it does not change the fact that 2.3.x is
> not recommended for production use.  Or are you saying that 2.3.11 is
> so near 2.4 that (on Fedora at least) it is ok for production?
> 
> Colin
> 
No, no, you are correct. 2.3.11 is still a development snapshot. And it 
clearly has some bugs still, considering there is another snapshot available 
2.3.12 and 2.3.13 about to be released. I was just trying to clarify the 
slightly awkward situation F13 users have ended up in.


Geert