On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Dave Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles Day wrote: > > >> Dare I ask: fink or macports? I don't quite understand the difference. I >> think you said that someone compiled gnucash for aqua using macports, which >> sounds promising. >> > > Fink for me. They're just two different packaging systems. Macports has a > bit of help directly from Apple these days, but they have different > strengths. Macports tends to jump on updates faster, but that can break > already installed stuff unexpectedly. Fink is more cautious (but not error > free), but that tends to make them slower in the gnome realm. Fink's kde > maintainer is quicker to package new versions than macports. Both suffer > from a shortage of active maintainers. > > Macports provides some additional flexibility in variants of packages, and > I think they have a built-in option to build a .app. > > see the thread starting at: > > http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2008-October/012018.html > for info on the aqua build. > > Once the problems with gnome 2.22 vs 2.24 get ironed out in fink, I'll see > if the fink gnome guru is willing to look at the --without-x11 versions of > various things to work with gtk-aqua. > Dave, I don't know if you saw already from the macports user mailing list, but from following that link and asking a few questions I was eventually able to use macports to build GnuCash on 10.5.5 without x11. It seems to work OK, though I have not exercised it much. Supposedly it should now be possible to generate GnuCash as a .app but I don't think it has been done successfully yet. > > > Dave > > -- > David Reiser > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Charles _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
