[Kmymoney] Call for Windows package testers

[Phil Richardson]

Does this contain the external database components, specifically MySQL?

Looking to give this a try.

When you say switching back to old will lose access to the data structures
of the newer version (e.g. tags). Is the completely lost, or just ignored?

How about in external DBs?




On 25 August 2014 18:08, Cristian Oneț <onet.cristian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask all Windows users who wish to improve the quality
> of KMyMoney on Windows to try the first installer of the "live build"
> series [1] and report any issues that you might encounter.
>
> As you may know the development team decided a release schedule [2].
> There is still about a month until the next release will be out which
> gives us enough time to iron out any glitches the installer might
> contain.
>
> It's also a good opportunity to take a look at the new features that
> were added (the most interesting should be transaction tags).
>
> Notes about this package:
> - it will only run on Windows 7 or newer version
> - it uses KDE 4.12.5 and Qt 4.8.6
> - it does not yet contain translations
> - GPG works with gpg4win out of the box (this [3] workaround is not
> longer needed)
> - as with previous versions it does not contain the HBCI KBanking
> plugin because AqBanking's [4] build system is autotools based making
> it hard to build using MSVC
> - the OFX import plugin is available
> - as with previous versions the Finance::Quote module will only work
> if you install perl (with the Finance::Quote module) separately
> - it will be periodically updated as issues are fixed
>
> If you currently use KMyMoney on Windows there is no need to uninstall
> your current version since this version will install in it's own
> folder and will have it's own shortcut by default. Just remember, the
> newer version extends the stored information in the data file (like
> tags) so when switching back to the old version this new extra
> information (tags), that the old version knows nothing about, will be
> lost.
>
> Make sure that you backup your data file (make a copy of it somewhere)
> more often while using this version (just in case). I actually expect
> this package to be better then the last one (4.6.4) but after all this
> is a call for testing.
>
> I have tested the installer on Windows 7 32bits so feedback using
> newer versions would be welcomed.
>
> Regards,
> Cristian
>
> [1]
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmymoney2/files/KMyMoney-Windows/live/kmymoney-x86-setup-4.6.90-cdd451fe35.exe/download
> [2] https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KMyMoney#Version_4.7.0
> [3] https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=120774#p311716
> [4] http://www.aquamaniac.de/sites/aqbanking/index.php
>
> P.S: Alvaro please blog about this since the planet has better visibility
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