[Qgis-developer] QGIS 2.0 Milestone: Feature freeze & updated release timetable

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:40 PM, William Kyngesburye
<woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2013, at 12:47 AM, Tim Sutton wrote:
>
>> Dear all
>>
>> Today I will also commit changes that move the home directory from
>> ~/.qgis to ~/.qgis2 so that we can properly support deployments where
>> 1.8 and 2.0 are used side by side. Also settings for QGIS 2.0 will be
>> independently store from the QGIS 1.x settings (e.g. under unix like
>> OS's they will now go into ~/.config/QuantumGIS/QGIS2.conf).
>
>
> I wonder if the application name should also have "2" in it?  Otherwise, to get a side-by-side install of 1.8 and 2 you'd have to configure a different prefix.  Though I guess a different prefix would be best on linux to keep all the support files separate.  I could at least change the OS X app to "QGIS 2", since support files are by nature isolated for an app, then it could be placed in the standard /Applications folder alongside QGIS 1.8.  I don't know how an app is organized on Windows, if it needs a different install path or different app name.

I guess that may make sense on e.g. ubuntu where you want to have both
installed from packages into /usr.

Regards

Tim



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