On 18 January 2011 17:30, Donald Allen <donaldcal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On 18 January 2011 16:59, Donald Allen <donaldcal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> On 18 January 2011 16:14, Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu> wrote: >>>>> [...] >>>>> PS: For the record, the Alpha releases vociferously exclaim that you >>>>> could lose data by using them. >>>>> >>>> >>>> However it is also unfortunately true that for some time the principle >>>> download link on the home page was to the alpha version and it was not >>>> at all clear that it was an alpha version. I can quite see how users >>>> found themselves running this thinking they had a stable release. >>> >>> That conflicts with what I've seen on the website. >> >> Note that I said "for some time". The website was much improved some >> time in October I think. See also >> >> http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Status-of-gnucash-need-for-clarification-tt1434648.html#a1434650 > > The announcement for 2.3.4 on 2009-08-19 reads:
I am not disputing any of that. All I am saying is that for a while the website was confusing, this was acknowledged and some significant work was done, resulting in great improvements. There is no denying that a number of users picked up 2.3 thinking it was the right version to use. There have been a number of examples of people in this situation asking for help on the user list. Colin > > GnuCash 2.3.4 (Unstable) released > > The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.4, the fifth of > several unstable 2.3.x releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software > which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.4.0. With this new > release series, GnuCash can use an SQL database using SQLite3, MySQL or > PostgreSQL. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac > OSX. > > WARNING: This is an *UNSTABLE* version of Gnucash. > > This release is intended for developers and testers who want to help > tracking down all those bugs that are still in there. > > Make sure you make backups of any files used in testing versions of GnuCash > in the 2.3.x series. Although the developers go to great lengths to ensure > that no data will be lost we cannot guarantee that your data will not be > affected if for some reason GnuCash crashes in testing these releases. > > NOTE: The latest stable version is 2.2.9. > >> >> Colin >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel