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Scripts for Official QGIS MacOS Packages
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New PR installs as QGIS.app not QGIS3.16.app #100

Closed jlayt closed 3 years ago

jlayt commented 3 years ago

Previous releases installed the QGIS app with a version number in the name, i.e. QGIS3.14.app. The new package does not. This was very useful to allow parallel installs for testing and development purposes. It would be useful to have this back by default, with 50 desktops to support it makes my life easier!

PeterPetrik commented 3 years ago

Hi, I do not know other application that uses version prefix in the installation folder so we moved to more natural naming for MacOS. On the positive side, you can now move the application/rename the folder to whatever name you like.

jlayt commented 3 years ago

Fair enough, but would you at least consider calling it QGIS3.app? It was a life-saver for us when running both QGIS 2 and 3 in parallel while we switched over, and it would make the QGIS 4 migration easier when it comes. We use Munki to manage our installs so I've set it to rename in there anyway, but it is very useful for testing purposes :-)

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PeterPetrik commented 3 years ago

qgis3 could work

3nids commented 3 years ago

I would be in favor of reverting. It is pretty useful to have the possibility of having several versions at the same time.

mapninja commented 3 years ago

Ditto, I find it useful to run several versions, and was having some trouble with renaming manually, after the change.

dkav commented 3 years ago

I would like to advocate the maintaining of the new naming convention (QGIS.app). I agree with @PeterPetrik original logic - I have only two apps that use a version number in their name.

PeterPetrik commented 3 years ago

I propose:

LTR will be

/Applications/QGIS.app

and PR /Applications/QGIS3.18.app

and nightly /Applications/QGIS3.19.app

ok?

dkav commented 3 years ago

I use Homebrew to cask install QGIS, so my preference would be to have the PR as the main release. Separate casks for LTR and Nightly could be made (dependent on them being accepted). From what I can tell this follows common practice with Homebrew. For example, four versions of Firefox can be installed:

Following this paradigm for QGIS, my vote would be for: