On 08-Mar-1999, James A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 10:30:15AM +1100, Tyson Dowd wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately, most of the main developers are too busy to help (even
> > to work on the project) and most of the questions on this list are from
> > people who only want installation help. The rest of the people on this
> > list are largely watching from the sidelines, without the time to do
> > a successful build and see what must be done to fix it.
> >
> I subscribed to this list last week and am underwhelmed by the amount
> of traffic here. I was hoping for a vigourous discussion about the
> development. Is anything being done? How are people supposed to contribute
> if they don't know what areas are being worked on or in need of a developer?
How are the "active" developers supposed to provide such discussion if
they don't have time for it?
The main problem at the moment is that gnucash has had XmHTML split from
the source archive, and has started using a number of extra libraries
(guile, gtk, nana, glib, etc) which means it is difficult for the
average user to build and install from scratch. Because of the large
number of packages it depends upon, it's difficult to get a stable
set of versions that people can build it with. This is the main thing
that needs working on.
I have been working on getting it packaged for Debian (which has all
the required packages except xmhtml) but this means first I have to
package xmhtml, which is itself in a bit of a mess mess (none of the
documentation matches the code, and the whole thing appears to have
been hacked around with to get it to be gtk-xmhtml).
I have been working with Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to try
to get it to build under Debian, but it is a non-trivial job.
--
The quantum sort:
while (!sorted) { do_nothing(); }
Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tyse.net/
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