[GNC] Running mixed versions (okay?)

[R Losey]

Thanks for this... I haven't seen any notice about file changes between
major versions (probably because - as you say - it is silently checked).

Yes, the Ubuntu version is from the repository. I'll have to look up
installing flatpak to get the 5.x version of GnuCash - I'm not going to do
the export/import work. I'd rather just not run it at all on Ubuntu... I
had been running a flatpak version earlier (that was on the previous LTS
version, where the repository version was [I think] at 3.x).


On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 11:48 AM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> There are some changes between major versions. There are checks silently
> run when you first open your file with a new major version.
>
> You can run those checks explicitly via Actions > Check & Repair.
>
> The goal is usually to keep compatibility between the last minor release
> of a major version and the next major version, in case you upgrade, have
> serious issues, and need to fall back.
>
> I wouldn't worry too much about mix-n-match within the same major
> version (say, all machines on 5.x) but if you have to keep one machine
> held back, at least get it to the last release of that version. In your
> case, that would mean getting the Linux box up to 4.14. Since you're
> using Ubuntu 22.04 and GnuCash 4.8, I'll hazard a guess that was from
> the Ubuntu repo. You'd need to switch to flatpak to get 4.14 if you
> don't want to build from source, but in either of those cases, you might
> as well just bump the Linux box to match your others in the 5.x series.
>
> The only alternative I can think of to keep the Linux version at 4.8,
> would be to export your transactions regularly from one of the other
> machines and then import them into a separate file used only with 4.8.
> But that is way more work than even building from source each release,
> not to mention updating a flatpak.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 2/24/24 10:01 AM, R Losey wrote:
> > So I have wonderful GnuCash installed on WIndows 10, on an M1 iMac, and
> on
> > Linux (Ubuntu 22.04LTS).
> >
> > I mostly use the iMac and Windows versions, and I've always kept these
> two
> > versions in sync; that is, when I decided to upgrade to 5.1, I install
> 5.1
> > back-to-back on the iMac and Windows computers... mostly this was due to
> a
> > fear of corrupting the data files by running different versions.
> >
> > But lately, and from education reading this list, I am thinking that the
> > data file format doesn't change, and the GnuCash version is more like a
> > "shell" around which the data file is operated upon, so maybe it's okay
> to
> > have Linux at 4.8 and Windows at 5.5-1 and iMac at 5.3.
> >
> > But I thought I'd run it by this group to see what people think.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
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