[GNC] GNUCash XML format compatibility

[David Carlson]

Adrian,

I think your explanation is much clearer than mine was.  Thanks

David Carlson

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 4:34 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> I’m not sure that makes it any clearer as 10.1 is *also* codenamed
> ‘Buster’. (the entire Debian 10 version, all releases, are ‘buster’)
>
> I think this is a confusion of terminology.
>
> It appears the questioner thought that a ‘major release’ is a specific
> singular release and that minor releases follow the major one.
>
> The confusion is in referring to ‘major’ as a 'release’ when it in fact is
> a ‘version’. There is no such thing as a ‘major release’. There are several
> releases for each major ‘version’. There will of course, always be a first
> x.0 release of a major version. (and we are now on release #9, dubbed 3.8
> of the major version 3 of GnuCash)
>
> As described previously, major *versions* were '2.4', '2.6', and now '3'.
>
> The reason for this difference is that prior to 3.0, a 3-number scheme was
> used. (fundamental.major.minor/bug-fix)
>
> So there were several minor or 'bug-fix' releases in the 2.4.x
> series/version.
>
> The same for the 2.6.x series/version. (the last of which was 2.6.21)
>
> Development versions were odd-numbered. (‘2.5’, ‘2.7’ for example)
>
> The third number was dropped for 3.0 (which would have been 2.8.0 had the
> old scheme continued) There were long explanations and discussions as to
> why this change was made. (now it is ‘major.minor’)
>
> There will be ‘3.9xx' versions (the first being '3.901’) which are the
> development versions in the run-up to version ‘4’, the first release of
> which will be ‘4.0’. If the pattern holds, there will at some point then be
> ‘4.9xx’ development versions in the run-up to version ‘5’.
>
>
> For the official outline of version numbering see the wiki:
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development_Process#Release_Version_Numbering
>
> And for the planned release schedule:
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Schedule
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
>
>
> > On Feb 12, 2020 w7d43, at 11:40 AM, David Carlson <
> david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If Gnucash releases had codenames like some Linux releases such as
> Debian,
> > it might be easier to understand.  The first Debian "buster" release was
> > Debian 10.0.
> >
> > David Carlson
>
>
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