*cough* This is insulting.I think we have to take much more care that packages for GnuCash are available. so people can install easely. My favorite distribution is slackware.
Ups... sorry, im apologies for that. That was not my interest.
Of course we do care that packages for GnuCash are available. But we will always find someone who says "My favorite distribution is XYZ" where XYZ is not in the set of already supported packages. Come on.
It was never on my mind taht this means "hey guys, I use slackware. Make a package for me". It was meant as "I use slackware and i can support the comunity you with a binayr package and can take care that gnucash runs on slackware". So i get completly musunderstood here.
concerns many applications in the gnome domain, and this also boils down to the fact that there is no such thing as one monolithic gnome package."
Slackware doesn't have GnuCash in the distribution. There is a list outside what to do to get GnuCash running, but this means to install a
lot of old gnome stuff. I have also to say that i want to use GnuCash
with KDE.
The point here is that this is a problem of gnome's design (if you want to call is a problem), not of GnuCash. We (the GnuCash developers) could of course try to fix gnome's design, but 1. we don't want to, and 2. we don't have time. It's the tasks of the distributions and/or external packagers to provide precompiled packages. I can only speak for Germany, but for the most widespread distribution in Germany (SuSE), there are precompiled rpms around as described on http://linuxwiki.de/GnuCash and in their online update.
And that is great. Nonetheless a lot of people currently move a way from
SUSE because 1. The was tooked over by novel, 2.The dont support any ISO's and 3. The Distribution are realy slow ;-).
But, once again. I wanted to help to provide GnuCash packages for e. g. Slackware to support Gnucash. I think it is a great software and if i get it run, i can delete my windows partition then.
No plans currently. Feel free to start. You would need to compile the gtk libraries on windows first (I think these are available), and also the gnome-ui libraries (these might not even be ported fully), and then you can try gnucash on windows.The other point is, that GnuCush IMO MUST also run under windows. It is a great benefit if you now a software
The problem is that there could be a lot of changes that must be reassigned to the code (#ifdef WIN32 blabla..). So i have to sign up as a developer and i'm not sure if i have the time.
a gnucash slackware package.Thanks for this offer. We appreciate any help in this direction. I think Chris Lyttle could receive such packages and put them on the FTP site, but I'm not sure whether he or somebody else is responsible for that.
OK, if i have that ready i will ask Chris for that.
Best regards,
Carsten Breuer
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