> On Jul 7, 2018, at 11:55 PM, Wm via gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> > wrote: > > On 05/07/2018 08:24, Colin Law wrote: >> On 5 July 2018 at 06:05, Wm via gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> >> wrote: >>> GnuCash Portable >>> https://portableapps.com/apps/office/gnucash_portable >>> is no longer portable as of 3.x >> I think it would be useful if you detailed the problem a little so >> others would not fall into the trap, or pointed us to a bug >> description or something. > > The problem is that there are > > one way file changes between 2.x and 3.x > > and > > significant directory use changes between 2.x and 3.x > > I know that, you know that but someone at PortableApps doesn't want to know. > > === > > Someone using the portable version is trying to go back to 2.x from 3.x, that > isn't going to work unless they have backups, the PA person doesn't seem to > know you can't go back. > > Someone else has reported they lost all their reports, well, duh, what was > expected when the person making GnuCash 3.x portable didn't notice that the > directory use changed. > > === > > I do *not* believe the person in charge of PortableApps.com is a bad person, > quite the opposite, I believe he is a good person, I think PortableApps.com > is a valuable site that provides useful resources. > > I'm not sure a bodged version of gnc 3.x that is guaranteed to lose a > directory is going to help anyone. > > === > > I have had a response from the site owner but he doesn't seem to be > understanding that the changes between 2.x and 3.x were significant and > required some action on his part. > > I have BCC’d this, if a gnc mod sees this first, please respect the BCC, > thank you. >
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. 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/>? Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
