Hi, There is already a GnuCash-Portable project out there, but they are also not directly tied to us..
I do think it might be reasonable to install the "gnucash portable builder" on our win32 build machine. -derek winPenPack <[email protected]> writes: > Dear authors of GnuCash, > > my name is Danilo Leggieri, I am the founder of italian winPenPack Project. > > winPenPack (http://www.winpenpack.com/main/?[en]) is a free and open source > project aimed to spread the use of portable software, supported by a growing > community counting about 33000 registered users up to now. If you want to > have a look in our site, please check this link: > http://www.winpenpack.com/main/?[en] (for english version click on the union > jack at the top/right corner). > > We have developed a highly configurable platform that allows to create > portable versions of non natively portable programs, like yours, without any > kind of modifications or reverse engineering made on program files and in > compliance with original installation status. Our policy is to apply our > technology only to open source programs, due to the freedom given by that > kind of license. > > We have already packaged many portable versions of open source softwares, > all available on our site under the section "X-Software" ( > http://www.winpenpack.com/main/download.php#x-software), and we hope you > will be pleased to know that GnuCash is between them ( > http://www.winpenpack.com/main/download.php?view.738). > > I am writing to you because we want be sure that the GnuCash portable > package does not represent for you any kind of violation of GnuCash license > (we have noticed that your program is released under GPL) and, in this case, > we wonder also if you are interested in finding a way to collaborate. The > simplest form we can think of is to offer to the visitors of your site a > link to download GnuCash portable (called X-GnuCash). You can find some > examples of this going to the download pages of Translate.Net ( > http://translateclient.googlepages.com/download.en.html), ConTEXT ( > http://www.contexteditor.org/downloads.html), or FET ( > http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/), where original authors have decided to > distribute related portable versions of their softwares based on winPenPack > Platform. > > Obviously, any other suggestion will be welcome. > > Many thanks in advance for your feedback. > Waiting for your answer as soon as you can. > > Sincerely, > Danilo Leggieri -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [email protected] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
