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I know this might sound like heresy to some, but are there any plans to port to windoze?
None of the developers are interested in doing the port, but we're
Why not charge money for the Windows build? If people are willing to shell out for Windows, they should shell out for apps too.
Ok, there's a technical reason right now why nobody is involved with a windows port: The current UI code heavily depends libraries that are not available on windows at all. That's most prominently the gnome-1.4 UI libraries. Since the GUI code makes up approx. 60-70% of the gnucash code, a porting of the current gnucash code simply doesn't make sense.
However, once we've finished the gnome2 port (porting status see http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashPortingStatus ), then it will probably be rather easy to finish a full windows port. "The other big application" Gnumeric already showed how to do it. Their UI code relies solely on gtk-2.0 (or 2.2 or whatever), i.e. they replaced every dependency on libgnomeui by its gtk equivalent. And gtk-2.2 is fully available on windows. Obviously they managed to do this somehow, so I suspect it shouldn't be too difficult to do the same with gnucash. Also, one of our smaller competitors, Grisbi http://sourceforge.net/projects/grisbi , is offering a windows port by this very same strategy.
BUT: First things first, so let's first finish the gnome2 port and then think about a windows port.
Christian
P.S.: Just a side note from Germany: The German online banking library aqbanking/aqhbci is already up and running on windows/mingw32. The German developer(s) would therefore be more than happy if GnuCash would be available on windows as well :-)
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