[GNC] Starting Balance in Reconciliation Window wrong

[Adrien Monteleone]

Sorry, I misunderstood your post.

I agree, even if it was human error, the change breaks backward compatibility in a minor release. It should have at least waited till 4.0.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Apr 9, 2020 w15d100, at 7:28 AM, D <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Adrien,
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> I disagree. In earlier versions, a transaction was only considered reconciled or not; its date of reconciliation was not considered. That a spurious date was entered for the reconciliation didn't affect the functionality of the software. Now, it does. 
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> That is a change in compatibility. 
> 
> Given that gnucash has a policy of backward compatibility, this change in behavior breaks that. Are the developers good with that change in policy?