GnuCash packaging

[Joshua Root]

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

I wasn't disparaging anyone's desire to build binaries, just explaining
why the bug is still unfixed.

- Josh