[GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

[Geert Janssens]

Op dinsdag 29 januari 2019 17:19:59 CET schreef John Ralls:
> > On Jan 29, 2019, at 8:03 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> > wrote:> 
> > Op dinsdag 29 januari 2019 15:28:01 CET schreef Adrien Monteleone:
> >>> I'm curious: what are the names of the two directories that were created
> >>> ?
> >>> Or in other words, how are those names decided on MacOS ?
> >>> 
> >>> As far as I know on linux and Windows the names are hardcoded to use the
> >>> compile time application name unless overridden by setting GNC_DATA_DIR
> >>> and
> >>> GNC_CONFIG_DIR environment variables. The latter (GNC_CONFIG_DIR) is
> >>> only
> >>> introduces in GnuCash 3.4.
> >>> 
> >>> Geert
> >> 
> >> The names matched the app name. (not including the .app extension of
> >> course)> 
> > App name as in "GnuCash" and "GnuCash-2" as in your earlier example ?
> > That's interesting but puzzling as I don't see anything in the code that
> > would make that happen. The default directory is hardcoded to GnuCash as
> > of gnucash 3.x.
> > 
> > Perhaps John does some magic to change this in the MacOS integration repo.
> 
> Nope, and as far as MacOS is concerned the "App Name" which appears at the
> left side of the menu bar and in Activity Monitor is "Gnucash", the name of
> the executable in Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS that's named in
> Gnucash.app/Contents/Info.plist. The filename of the bundle (i.e.
> Gnucash.app or whatever the user might rename it to) doesn't matter to
> anything except the file system.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls

Ok, that's how I understood as well. So I can only assume the two application 
data directories are "GnuCash" and "Gnucash" (different capitalization of the 
letter "C").

For 2.6 this directory was called "Gnucash" and in the 3.x series I renamed it 
to "GnuCash". That was under the belief that MacOS' file system was still 
case-insensitive/case-preserving so it would be an innocent no-op for most 
users. IIRC you recently told me it no longer is so this will affect people 
migrating to a more recent gnucash version.

Regards,

Geert