GnuCash 2.7.8 Released

[Stan Brown]

Hi, David.

I'm assuming I can install the new release in a different folder. My question was whether the install would mess up anything less obvious. The answer seems to be yes, but in preferences and data files rather than in program files..

So I guess I'll have to create a virtual machine to install 2.7.8 on, just so that I can test whether the bug I reported in 2.6.19 exists in 2.7.8, as I was asked.  It will be a couple of hours to set up, and about 60 seconds to test.  Sigh!

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On Sun, Mar 25, 2018, at 10:36 PM, David Carlson 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> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > > On Mar 25, 2018, at 5:33 PM, Stan Brown <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