What do you find about dropping to an earlier release, not
'straightforward'? It is a simple matter of removing the current
release, and installing the older one. (I believe on Windows systems,
you can safely just install the older release as the installer will do
the in-place replacement for you)
I also can't fathom exactly how you imagine the developers have 'made
downgrading harder'. I don't see that they've done any such thing. They
even make an effort to support reverting to recent older releases for
just this purpose.
If you have followed the recommended upgrade procedure via the Wiki's
FAQ, you should be able to easily drop down to the last version of the
last major release before your current one if necessary, though in most
cases, simply dropping one or two point-releases within the current
major version is sufficient. (and in some cases, not even necessary as
there may be workarounds, albeit with a bit of extra effort)
Yes, there have been a few significant issues over the last year or so
that have prompted more 'downgrades' than previously. But so far as I
can tell following the threads, every one of those was caused by outside
software.
Overall, this is one of the most responsive and helpful development
teams I've experienced for any software I use. And there's no mega-corp
behind them, just a handful of gracious folks donating their time and
effort because they care and they want to see the project they use
themselves, survive and thrive. (the devs are users too, and they can
experience the same regressions, and frustrations, along with the rest
of us.)
Regards,
Adrien
On 4/24/24 5:24 PM, Yann Salmon via gnucash-user wrote:
downgrading is really not a
straightforward route as software managers, for good reasons, make
upgrading software easy and downgrading it harder
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