[GNC] Gnucash logs

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 4/27/2020 10:50 PM, D. wrote:
> Michael,
>
> I take your point; we users will often create duplicated file names for different content. I believe that many users only keep one set of books. I don't have any statistics on general GnuCash usage to be able to say whether more users have one file or many.
>
> However, given that operating systems prevent identical file names to coexist in a folder, it would seem to me that there is a simple remedy to overlapping log files: per book log folder settings. In your case, business1financials/ledger.gnucash would use business1financials/logs and organization1financials/ledger.gnucash would use organization1financials/logs
>
> Problem solved.
>
Yes, but that is solving the problem by a different method (not writing 
the log files to a dedicated directory for all log files but writing 
them into a subdirectory of the directory containing the data file). 
Would be easy for gnucash when starting to check for the existence of 
this subdirectory, if not there, create it. Much as it checks for the 
existence of a lock file.

Had THAT been suggested you would not have seen an objection from me. 
But about "almost all users have only one set of books" I have to laugh. 
If all those rare situations never existed, designing/writing software 
would be a snap. Software solution have to ALWAYS work. A commonly 
quoted rule of rule of thumb, 80% of the design/write time will be 
handling just 20% of the cases, but in my experience, 50% of the time 
will be handling those that are 1% or less.


Michael