[GNC] Concern with the lengthy list of "Known Issues"

[Christoph R]

Hi,

I am using gnucash since 2004 for multiple accounts and have my whole personal history since then in one file. I am running gnucash on MacOs in German which is somewhat special and the only dev for MacOs is John. Thanks to him for all the work putting he is putting in! I was a pretty happy user up until 3.0. 

But with the 3.x series there are more problems than I am used to and progress is very slow. The only version working for me so far is 3.5, which is my production version for now. Versions before crashed or failed on important operations (like the csv importer, which is the main reason I am using 3.x). 3.6 apparently has a stray ifdef on MacOs which makes the program always fall back to English. So I am back to 3.5.

And the release cycle is pretty long. So even when bugs are fixed it takes a lot of time to get them in a stable build.

As much as I am proponent of using the latest software versions: with gnucash 3.x I cannot wholeheartedly
recommend it. The good thing though is that you can try and go back. The latest 2.x version reads 3.x files. And switching between 3.x versions back and forth works too.

Cheers,
Christoph

> Am 21.07.2019 um 19:31 schrieb scotts <ssoderling at shaw.ca>:
> 
> I have been using Gnucash for about 3 years now, and for the most part
> enjoying the experience! I use it for my personal finances (bank accounts,
> credit cards, investments, etc). I am also the treasurer of a golf club
> association and am considering moving their accounting over to Gnucash.
> 
> I am currently using Windows version 2.6.21. Of course at the moment, the
> most current stable release is version 3.6. My only hesitation in upgrading
> is what seems to me to be a very long list of "known issues" with the
> release.
> 
> I'm looking for other opinions. In my experience, version 2.6.21 seems to
> pretty much work as advertised. No crashes, runs quickly enough on my
> computer, all the functions I've tried seem to work fine. Normally I would
> upgrade any software to the latest release, hopefully taking advantage of
> bug fixes and new features. But when I see the long list of issues, I
> hesitate.
> 
> Would appreciate any comments from others. Am I being overly paranoid?
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> 
> 
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