[GNC-dev] GnuCash Portable is no longer portable as of 3.x

[Wm]

On 08/07/2018 15:52, John Ralls wrote:

> Wm,
> 
> Portable Apps is just another downstream distro.  We have no ability to enforce anything against any distro. Either they maintain a usable GnuCash in their package manager or they don’t and there’s not a darn thing we can do about it unless they have a technical reason for not doing so (like the recent dropping of the WebKit1 API by Fedora) and inform us of it. AFAIK we’ve never had any such contact from the Portable team.
> 

That isn't how PA present their re-packaging and use of GnuCash.

> A question for you: Why did you choose to use GnuCash Portable instead of the GnuCash Windows bundle from www.gnucash.org <http://www.gnucash.org/>?

I don't use it myself, I use it on other people's behalf.

Reasons?

Convenience. I can say "don't update to GnuCash 3.x until it is working 
right for you" rather than having them try early versions that I know 
won't do what they expect.

Backups. PortableApps puts data in more sensible places by default than 
GnuCash does, or used to.  <--- See the circle here?

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Wm