Thanks for that. It will be a huge deal to be able to use GnuCash on
the Mac. How long would a change like this take to appear across the
mirrors? Just so I know when to try next. Thanks again - gotta say,
this is the first mailing list I've come across where people respond
with helpful info really quick and something gets done really quick
too. Kudos to you guys.
Carl
On 16/11/2006, at 6:41 AM, Mark Duling wrote:
Under the circumstances I think that backing the port down to the
previous
version is fine.
Mark
Marc André Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wednesday, November 15, 2006
at 9:26
AM -0800 wrote:
the recent slib upgrade to 3a4 gives us (well, me) more headaches
than I would wish for. GnuCash does not work with versions 3a2 and
3a4 of slib, only 3a3. The last few days, all of the time I can
spend for MacPorts was busy instructing people how to manually
downgrade slib to 3a3. I have tried to provide a package "slib-
stable" with 3a3, but this would have to filter through too many
ports to make it actually desirable.
From a cursory grep at the dports directory, it appears (I may be
mistaken!) that the only ports that actually use slib are GnuCash and
lang/gauche.
Also, that the major reason slib was upgraded for MacPorts seems to
have been that the sources for 3a3 had moved and the people fixing
this thought the upgrade to the latest alpha release was the simplest
solution.
Are my premises correct? Would it thus be acceptable for me to
actually revert the slib portfile to version 3a3 (including a fix for
the source location)? For a limited period of time? It would
certainly make life easier for anybody wanting to use GnuCash on OS
X. (fink is no alternative, since it does not yet provide GnuCash
2.0.)
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