> On Sep 22, 2018, at 1:48 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> > wrote: > > Op zaterdag 22 september 2018 00:10:16 CEST schreef davidcousen...@gmail.com > <mailto:davidcousen...@gmail.com>: >>> "What do you mean with "features type marketing" ?" >> >> Geert >> >> What I was getting at was that a comprehensive list of distributions that >> GnuCash runs on was more relevant to users making a decision to use it, >> hence the marketing (I didn't intend in the commercial sense though). I >> don't feel that its really necessary >> to cover every Linux version in the build instructions but perhaps more >> usefulto illustrate examples from distributions pehaps where there may be >> more significant differences (I also don't know a lot about the different >> variants and we probably have to rely on our user base to provide >> information there). >> >> The key bit of information is that you need to install specific tools and >> libraries/headers and you will use some sort of package manager to do that. >> > Ok, thanks for clarifying. > > Indeed we don't need a comprehensive list of distributions. On the other hand > for a recipe to work well, it should list concrete steps for dependency > installation. I know my biggest hurdle (even as an experienced developer) is > to figure out the exact commands to search for and install packages and to > find the proper package names. I know them pretty well for Fedora as that's > my > distro of choice, but sometimes I run tests in other distros and I always > spend more time than I want on getting started. So in that area it would > really be helpful to list the exact commands to get started per platform. > > I would assume the whole debian based universe will be served with one set of > instructions or perhaps a few, depending on tools that are available on > certain releases. > Which reminds me: someone suggested to promote apt instead of apt-get as the > preferred choice. I would only do so if all the distro releases we still care > to support in the debian-sphere ship this tool. If not, I would be tempted to > stick with apt-get for now and revise this in the future. For example does > Ubuntu 14.04 already ship the apt tool ? Does Ubuntu 16.04 ? > > For Fedora and derivatives the tool of choice is dnf. For arch it's pacman. > For (Open)Suse it was yast last time I checked (which was a long time ago). > RHEL and CentOS as still using yum, but it's been a while since last time I > tried to build gnucash on those. Usually the dependencies are an issue there. > I don't know about gentoo and derivatives. > > I think those are the primary groups. There are plenty of others, but > motivated users of other platforms are invited to contribute the details for > their preferred platforms (and ideally keep them up to date). > >> The user should from that be able to research what they need to use for >> their particular distribution if it is not one we specifically mention. >>
Gentoo uses a derivative of the BSD “ports” system called Portage: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
