Cross Platform, Cross Version

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 12 Jul 2015 11:52:02 -0500 sajan at noppix.com wrote:

> 
> I've just started a new business and want to use GnuCash for all 
> accounting and do it myself, outsourcing my single employee payroll to 
> someone else.  I'm primarily a Linux user and was thinking about syncing 
> the company files to our file server and opening them up from different 
> laptops and computers.  I'm wondering will I encounter any issues if one 
> laptop opens up the company files with GNUCash version XXX, make some 
> changes, save.  Then I open it up on a different computer with a 
> slightly different version of GNUCash?
> 
> Reason I ask is because I have a mix of laptops and computers, some 
> running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, some running Ubuntu 15.04.  Plus, I if I don't 
> get my way, I might have a single Windows 7 computer as well.  All of 
> these will have different versions of GNUCash, but will open the same 
> set of files off the file server.
> 
> Let me know if this is a giant disaster waiting to happen, or if I 
> should be okay.

The *easy* solution is to pick one single version of GNUCash, probably the 
oldest of the set and then stick with it.  Since you are running fairly 
'modern' O/Ses, it should not be too hard to just pick something slightly less 
than the bleeding edge version.  I suspect that the limiting factor will be 
the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS system(s).  Just install the *same* version of GNUCash on 
the Ubuntu 15.04 systems and then do the necessary config magic (somewhere in 
/etc/apt/...) to pin the version to the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS version on the Ubuntu 
15.04 systems.  And then just install the corresponding mess-windows version 
on the Windows 7 system.

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Sajan Parikh
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