[GNC] File Format Documentation (Bug 777893)

[Adrien Monteleone]

Sorry Derek & John,

I stand corrected.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 16, 2018, at 10:06 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> writes:
> 
>> Since .gnucash is not really proprietary or somehow a special format
>> from XML then I agree, the extension should be .xml.
> 
> The benefit of using .gnucash is that the gnucash-xml file can be
> auto-loaded into GnuCash and not a generic XML parser.
> 
>> Combine this with the fact that the sqlite version of the file ALSO
>> uses the .gnucash extension can make for some confusion. At a glance,
> 
> Confusion for whom?  A user shouldn't really care whether a gnucash data
> file is XML or SQLite -- it should just work.  The benefit of both being
> named .gnucash is that the user doesn't need to be told "back up *this*
> filename if you're using XML, and back up this *other* filename if
> you're using SQL".  Instead, we can just say "back up XXX.gnucash" and
> it just works.
> 
>> you can’t tell what the format is. You can’t even tell until you try
>> to open it with something other than GnuCash. (or you notice that
>> GnuCash doesn’t offer a Save option) The only reason I know which is
>> which is I had to use filename.xml.gnucash to tell them apart. That’s
>> a usability bug in my opinion. I don’t know how hard that is to
>> change, but I’d support the move.
> 
> Why would you want to open it in something else?  Why should we care
> about supporting that?
> 
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> -derek
> 
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