[GNC] GNUCash 3.x and 4.x compatibility

[Adrien Monteleone]

I would stick with one or the other as they are different major 
versions. You shouldn't have any issues running two different minor 
versions such as 4.0 on one machine and 4.1 on another. There might be 
exceptions in some rare cases, but the devs will let everyone know if 
that happens and which versions are affected.

Compiling on Linux is not difficult but it does involve some reading and 
initial setup of the build environment. Another easy option is to use a 
recent Flatpak, but that too has some sandbox issues you may need to 
work around. (printing comes to mind, and I think there are some 
workarounds needed for using a db backend with Flatpak)

Otherwise, just install the same older version on Windows.

Regards,
Adrien

On 10/11/20 10:04 PM, Kevin Exton wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I normally use GNUCash 3.x on Debian 10 (Just whatever is currently in the
> stable repositories to make my life easy).
> 
> Recently I have a need to also use GNUCash on a Windows machine. Are there
> compatibility issues between GNUCash 3.x and 4.x if I run them on the same
> data backed up in Dropbox?
> 
> I'm thinking maybe I will need to install a new version of GNUCash on
> Debian. Or an old version on Windows.
> 
> Thanks All!
> Kevin