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

[Geert Janssens]

Op dinsdag 29 januari 2019 17:38:54 CET schreef John Ralls:
> > On Jan 29, 2019, at 8:24 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> > wrote:> 
> > 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.
> 
> It's still true by default. Users have always had the option of making HFS+
> and APFS filesystems case-sensitive at creation (i.e. format), but few do.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls

Ok, I'll try to remember this time...

Geert