Installation path clashes with another application called Dash

[pasine]

The application is installing all its data into /Users/<username>/Library/Application\ Support/Dash under OSX.
Unfortunately there is another application called Dash using the same path, so they ended up using the same folder to install the files.
I guess the application should do a minimum check to avoid clashes and accidental data loss.

[schinzelh]

Good find, many thanks. We have a similar clash in the Linux world,as there is a package called 'dash' too which is a Shell application

$ apt-cache search dash
dash - POSIX-compliant shell

[UdjinM6]

Yep, we could move default datadir e.g.

Windows: %APPDATA%\DashCore\
Mac OS: ~/Library/Application Support/DashCore/
Unix/Linux: ~/.dashcore/

This however will require yet another migration for users.

Same for Linux package name - dashcore. We could probably even rename this repo?

Basically we need to come up with some naming convention and maybe it's better to follow the principle that is already declared right there in README.md (and imo it actually makes sense):

Dash is an experimental new digital currency ...
Dash Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.

[ghost]

DashCore +1

[crowning-]

DashCore sounds good, is (more) unique and leaves room for other wallet/daemon implementations (DashThis, DashThat, ...).

+1

[schinzelh]

DashCore +1

[UdjinM6]

fixed by #905