Thanks Derek, That would be really helpful. I am a long-term GNUCash user, and I am very happy to test builds, but not that interested in building frankly.
Regards, Kim Derek Atkins wrote: > > I'm happy to work with the Win32 devs to setup a Win32 VM with a nightly > build setup on the GnuCash VM host.. > > -derek > > Quoting Kim_Wood <kim.w...@bigpond.net.au>: > >> >> Anyone prepared to post a link to a Windows build of 2.3.0? Any plan for >> the >> nightly builds to return? >> >> Regards, >> >> Kim Wood >> >> >> >> >> plongstaff wrote: >>> >>> GnuCash 2.3.0 released >>> >>> The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.0, the first >>> of >>> several unstable 2.3.x releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software >>> which >>> will eventually lead to the stable version 2.4.0. With this new release >>> series, GnuCash can use an SQL database using SQLite3, MySQL or >>> PostgreSQL. It >>> runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX. This release is intended >>> for >>> developers and testers who want to help tracking down all those bugs >>> that >>> are >>> still in there. >>> >>> WARNING WARNING WARNING - Make sure you make backups of any files used >>> in >>> testing versions of GnuCash in the 2.3.x series. Although the developers >>> go to >>> great lengths to ensure that no data will be lost we cannot guarentee >>> that >>> your data will not be affected if for some reason GnuCash crashes in >>> testing >>> these releases. >>> >>> PLEASE TEST TEST AND TEST SOME MORE any and all features important to >>> you. >>> Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla >>> >>> Getting GnuCash >>> >>> GnuCash 2.3.0 can be downloaded from gnucash.org. It is available as >>> source code. >>> >>> To install GnuCash, users will need Gnome 2, guile, and slib. Neither >>> the >>> currently used swig nor the previously used g-wrap packages are needed >>> anymore >>> when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary. >>> >>> * http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/2.3.x >>> >>> cd401475075b3b7f490444ff45569b5a gnucash-2.3.0.tar.bz2 >>> afa22b610ef38cf0a367eeb17b74a292 gnucash-2.3.0.tar.gz >>> 60bc6ab7637562274edd6850ff0d82a1 webkit-1.1.5-win32.zip >>> >>> Major changes in this release include; >>> >>> * In addition to the XML backend, Gnucash can now use a SQLite3, MySQL >>> or >>> PostgreSQL database tostore the data. This is a new implementation using >>> libdbi. It supports all features including the business features. In >>> order to >>> build with this, add --enable-dbi to the configure command. In addition >>> to the >>> libdbi-dev package for your distribution, you will also need the >>> appropriate >>> DBD (libdbi driver) package for sqlite3, mysql or postgresql. >>> * In addition to the current GtkHTML HTML engine used to display reports >>> and >>> graphs, Gnucash canuse WebKit. WebKit is the engine used by Google >>> Chrome >>> on >>> Windows and Safari on Apple. In order to build with this, add >>> --enable-webkit >>> to the configure command. You will need an appropriate webkit-dev >>> package. On >>> win32, you will need to download the webkit-1.1.5-win32.zip file from >>> the >>> source repository and put it into the downloads directory of your >>> gnucash >>> build area. >>> * Updated to AqBanking 3 on Win32. >>> >>> Caveats for Testers >>> >>> * Any 2.3.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during >>> runtime. >>> If >>> you test some serious work in a 2.3.x release and are using the XML file >>> backend for data storage, make sure you hit "Save" after every >>> non-trivial >>> workstep. If you are using the SQL backend, this is not required as >>> every >>> change is saved immediately to the database. >>> * The documentation has had screenshots updated, however, many help >>> texts >>> usually only refers to the 1.8.x series. Everyone is invited to help >>> improve >>> the documentation; see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development on how >>> to >>> get >>> involved. >>> >>> How can you help? >>> >>> * Testing: Test it and help us discover all bugs that might show up in >>> there. >>> Please enter each and every bug into bugzilla. >>> * Translating: The new release comes with some new translation strings. >>> If >>> you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this >>> release >>> already. A string freeze will be announced in one of the later 2.3.x >>> releases. >>> Please check http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates >>> on >>> this. >>> >>> We would like to encourage people to test this and any further releases >>> as >>> much as possible and submit bug reports in order that we can polish >>> GnuCash to >>> be as stable as possible for the 2.4.0 release in a few weeks. Then post >>> any >>> bugs you find to >>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash >>> bugzilla >>> >>> About the Program >>> >>> GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU >>> General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, >>> Mac >>> OSX and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and >>> its >>> first >>> stable release was in 1998. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-devel mailing list >>> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >>> >>> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Gnucash-2.3.0-released-tp23579160p23594944.html >> Sent from the GnuCash - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> > > > > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > warl...@mit.edu PGP key available > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Gnucash-2.3.0-released-tp23579160p23605050.html Sent from the GnuCash - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
