GnuCash 2.7.8 Released

[John Ralls]

Of course it changes the GnuCash program folder. Stan asked about C:\Windows and C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files, and the GnuCash installer touches neither.

Yes, there are some data file changes, but aside from the SQLite3 one I already explained 2.6.19 is capable of operating on them.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Mar 25, 2018, at 7:36 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Does that 2.7.8 release really not change anything in the GnuCash program folder in Windows OS?
> 
> I can see if the data files are in different folders they will not interact, but wouldn't new there be problems if the data file associated to the older program release is accidentally saved with the new program release?
> 
> And installing release 2.7.8 would delete program release 2.6.19 and vice versa, wouldn't it?
> 
> David C
> 
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 7:50 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Mar 25, 2018, at 5:33 PM, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm <mailto:the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2018-03-25 19:54, John Ralls wrote:
> >
> >> The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.8,
> >> the ninth release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 3.0. This
> >> release is a Release Candidate: If no bugs requiring major work are
> >> reported the next release will be 3.0.
> >
> > John,
> >
> > Am I correct in assuming that the release is entirely self-contained in
> > Windows, and doesn't install anything in C;\Windows\System32,
> > "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files", etc?
> >
> > In other words, can I have 2.6.19 and 2.7.8 on the same Windows 7 PC,
> > simply by installing them to different folders? I'm spending a lot of
> > time converting seven years of data from a dBase file, and I don't want
> > to install 2.7.8 if it will interfere with 2.6.19.
> 
> Stan,
> 
> Absolutely yes to the first question.
> 
> Yes to the second with a couple of warnings: They use the same registry keys and auxiliary file locations, so if you change the preferences in one it will affect the other; that's true if you install them to separate directories or reinstall back-and-forth to the same one.
> 
> There's also a date-format incompatibility in the SQLite3 backend. It will be resolved with 2.6.20 but you won't be able to open a SQLite3 database with 2.6.19 once it's been written to by 2.7.x.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
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