As a follow up to this announcement, Windows binaries are now available on sourceforge.
On 4/14/07, Chris Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > GnuCash 2.1.0 released > > The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.1.0 aka > "Opening Windows", the first of several unstable 2.1.x releases of the > GnuCash OpenSource Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the > stable version 2.2.0. With this new release series, GnuCash is available > on Microsoft Windows for the first time, and it also runs on GNU/Linux, > *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX. This release is intended for developers and > testers who want to help tracking down all those bugs that are still in > there. > > WARNING WARNING WARNING - Make sure you make backups of any files used > in testing versions of GnuCash in the 2.1.x series. Although the > developers go to great lengths to ensure that no data will be lost we > cannot guarentee that your data will not be affected if for some reason > GnuCash crashes in testing these releases. > > PLEASE TEST TEST AND TEST SOME MORE any and all features important to > you. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla > > Major changes in this release include; > > * GnuCash has been ported to the Microsoft Windows OS. > * Improved Scheduled Transaction editor and management dialogs. > * Internally, the programming language wrappers are no longer being > generated by the not-so-well-maintained package "g-wrap" but > instead by the well-established wrapper generator "SWIG". In > effect, gnucash does no longer depend on g-wrap anymore but uses > SWIG now. > * New printing formats for check printing. > * GtkPrint integrated. > > *Caveats for Testers* > > Any 2.1.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during runtime. > If you test some serious work in a 2.1.x release, make sure you hit > "Save" after ever non-trivial workstep. > > The documentation has had screenshots updated, however, many help texts > usually only refers to the 1.8.x series. Everyone is invited to help > improve the documentation; see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development > on how to get involved. > > *How can you help?* > > Testing: Test it and help us discover all bugs that might show up in > there. Please enter each and every bug into bugzilla. > > Translating: The new release comes with some new translation strings. If > you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this > release already. A string freeze will be announced in one of the later > 2.1.x releases. Please check > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on this. > > We would like to encourage people to test this and any further releases > as much as possible and submit bug reports in order that we can polish > GnuCash to be as stable as possible for the 2.2.0 release in a few > weeks. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla > <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash> > > *Getting GnuCash* > > GnuCash 2.0 can be downloaded from sourceforge.net. It is available as > source code. > > To install GnuCash, users will need Gnome 2, guile, slib and g-wrap. > > *http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash > <http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash/>* > > *http://www.gnucash.org <http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/>* > > *About the Program* > > GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU > General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris > and Mac OSX. It is collaboratively developed by 10 people from over 5 > countries. > > Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was > in 1998. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
