GnuCash packaging

Olaf Foellinger olaf at foellinger.de
Thu Jan 8 09:58:23 PST 2009


* Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> [08.01.09 08:23]wrote:

>    On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Olaf Foellinger
>    <[1]olaf at foellinger.de> wrote:
> 
>      Hi,
>      * Charles Day <[2]cedayiv at gmail.com> [05.01.09 01:14]wrote:
> 
>    >    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...
> 
>      the OS X native Gimp.app has been built based on MacPorts IIRC.
>      Maybe
>      that's another good starting point for the goal.
> 
>    I don't know if this is up to date, but I found a procedure for
>    building a Gimp .app using MacPorts:
>    [3]http://darwingimp.sourceforge.net/buildgimp.html
>    This may give some interesting clues.

Yes, that was it what I was thinking of. Mixed it up.

Gruß Olaf


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