Using ~/.gnucash2 vs ~/.gnucash for Gnome2

[Derek Atkins]

Hey, Matthew.  Welcome back.  :)

I personally don't feel we should change the app name.  There's no
reason to have gnucash 1.8 and gnucash 2.0 co-exist on the same
machine.  There's already some differentiation in the use of
~/.gnome{,2}/GnuCash, ~/.gnucash/config-auto-{1.8,2.0} so the only
real overlap is the shared-use of ~/.gnucash/books/<bookname>.

So, I see no need to apply this particular patch.  As a developer I
always suggest using /opt installs for multiple versions of gnucash.
There are too many potential pitfalls otherwise in terms of overlap of
scheme files, libraries, etc.

I didn't look at this patch, so perhaps you did change all the
libraries and scheme files to new names, but if you didn't then I'm
surprised this works.

-derek

Matthew Vanecek <mevanecek at yahoo.com> writes:

> Hey,
> I started poking at this thing a little bit, and since I've upgraded to
> Fedora Core 3, I figured I'd poke at the G2 port a little bit.  Anyhow,
> since everything else in Gnome2 uses a "2" suffix, I was wondering if it
> mightn't be a good idea to do the same thing for Gnucash-2.  One benefit
> is that you can maintain a separate installation of each version, and
> you won't overwrite the .gnucash tree with G2 testing.  Also, well, it
> seems an easy way to differentiate between the two versions.
>
> It may be that the core developers don't envision Gnucash and GnuCash-2
> ever coexisting on the same boxen, but certainly for developers it's a
> definite case of coexistence.  Anyhow, I created and tested a patch to
> use ~/.gnucash2 instead of ~/.gnucash, using the gnucash-gnome2-dev
> branch.  "It works for me".
>
> Just thought I'd throw this out there,
> Matt Vanecek
>
>
>
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