GnuCash packaging

[Charles Day]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

I never took it that way. Heck, I'm not even sure what the package would
contain or how useful it would be. This is still experimentation on my part
at this point to see what's possible.


> - Josh
>

Cheers,
Charles
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