On 9/7/06, Josh Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is unfortunate.
Yeah. Unfrotunately there's no longer a "full-time" maintainer. It's negative feedback, though I'm afraid > without incredibly helpful details, as it's been a week or so since I > tried to compile/install. Spent some time trying to install the > binaries from gnucash's website without luck, despite fulfilling > dependencies with Fink. Then realized gnucash itself was in Fink, so > started fresh by installing that package. This took several hours, > and left me with a gnucash install that was only nearly functional. > IIRC, I got a register screen and a terminal error message. Here's > where my memory fades, and my removal of the package frustrates re- > creation. I know that's frustrating; mea culpa. > > I've found some more documentation online, including http:// > homepage.mac.com/elliottmce/gnucash_guide/ which seems optimistic. > I've also cursed Quicken 2005 (free with a Mac Mini last summer). So > I'll probably give it another go. > > Just grumpy, and thought y'all should know that this isn't quite > working. (Perhaps that's why, IIRC, it's an unstable binary.) > > JP > As a general note: it's not productive to provide negative feedback without specific information, because there's absolutely no way for anybody to fix anything on that basis. "Not working" may be due to something on your system and not a general issue for everybody--for example this version of gnucash works just fine for me And "unstable" doesn't necessarily mean that. It just means "not sufficiently tested for Fink's binary distribution".. > On September7,2006, at 2:44 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > > Below is a literal transcript of what you sent. Unfortunately the > > Fink Commander negative and positive feedback buttons send exactly the > > same information, so we have no clue whether this was positive or > > negative. > > > > On 9/7/06, Josh Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Package manager version: 0.24.26 > >> Distribution version: 0.8.1.rsync i386 > >> Mac OS X version: 10.4.7 > >> Xcode version: 2.2.1 > >> gcc version: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250) > >> make version: 3.80 > >> Feedback Courtesy of FinkCommander > >> > > > > -- > > Alexander K. Hansen > > Fink Documenter (still) > > -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter (still) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
