GnuCash packaging

[Charles Day]

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> Anders F Björklund wrote:
> > Charles Day wrote:
> >
> >> Well I tried the following workaround for ticket 10881, but macports
> >> started trying to include the wrong dependencies. For example, it
> >> tried to include dependencies based on X11 when I specified gnucash
> >> +no_x11 (see gnome-desktop at the end as an example).
> >>
> >> In addition, it seems that some dependencies are required to be built
> >> into their own destroots in advance (see the error message for
> >> aqbanking below).
> >>
> >> So I'm not sure how I should try again to make it work.
> >
> > Disable autoclean in macports.conf, uninstall and clean everything, and
> > start over ?
> >
> > The "force destroot" workaround requires that you do it for every single
> > port,
> > including all dependencies and making sure all needed variants are
> > included...
> >
> > "Given that this has been around for 2 years, is this considered a bug
> > or a feature?"
>
> Heh, there are bugs that have been around longer... it just appears that
> relatively few people care about building binaries.
>

Maybe not too many care about building them, but a lot care about
distributing them once they are built. A distribution of GnuCash for Mac in
binary form is one of the more requested features (especially recently) I
see as a GnuCash developer. Going through the steps of installing GnuCash
via MacPorts or Fink is unfortunately beyond what many users are able or
willing to do.

So that's why I'm looking into building a binary...


> - Josh
>

-Charles
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