> On Jul 8, 2018, at 7:35 PM, Wm via gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> > wrote: > > 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.
Oh? Please explain. > >> 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? GnuCash puts data wherever you tell it to. It has defaults, but they’re easily overridden with environment variables. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
