> On Oct 3, 2022, at 7:56 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger
> <frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> comments inline
>
> Am 03.10.22 um 18:23 schrieb Bruce Schuck:
>>> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 21:09:31 -0700 From: john <jra...@ceridwen.us>
>>> Correct. IIUC there are a lot of things not normally included in a
>>> flatpak installation required to run cpan, so it's not really a
>>> practical option. We build Finance::Quote and all of its dependencies
>>> from source tarballs, see
>>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-flatpak/blob/master/modules/finance-quote-sources.json.
>>> Unfortunately F::Q has a lot of dependencies and the list isn't
>>> stable, so keeping up with the latest often falls in the "too much
>>> effort" category and doesn't get done.
>>> If there's a better way, please share.
>> John,
>> Trust me, if I knew a better way I would share. But you answered my unasked
>> question as to whether or not including GCC is feasible or may be included
>> in the future.
>
> From
> https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/building-introduction.html#software-development-kits-sdks
> etc. I would suspect, our users have to install org.gnome.sdk to have the
> compiler inside the flatpaks available.
>
>> My concern is that the copy from GitHub ./lib/Finance to <flatpak path>,
>> while working for the AlphaVantage currency fix, may not necessarily work
>> for other modules that require those modules that need compiling to install
>> not included in the flatpak.
>> Being a somewhat recent addition to the F::Q maintainer team (and lately the
>> sole active member), I am unsure why there is a huge number of additional
>> module requirements between 1.49 and 1.52.
>
> It seems cpan generates on each run a different order of building the
> required modules. That makes it not really easy to find the diffs.
Bruce,
Frank is the one who's actually done the work of getting the Finance::Quote
build into the Flatpak, so he's the best one to answer the question.
Adding to his response, keep in mind that the F::Q build starts from whatever
Flatpak's perl has and building a full dependency stack, so if something
halfway down changes one of its dependencies it can require substantial changes
even if F::Q didn't change anything.
On the other hand, the latest F::Q might work perfectly with the older version
of that dependency. Like most package managers cpan is quite aggressive in
pushing the latest of everything, so using it as a guide might be making extra
work... but then not using it as a guide is also extra work. :-/
Regards,
John Ralls
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