Re: Dependency hell redux

2001-06-18 Thread cbbrowne
Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > Rob> What about a downloadable .tar.gz file which is all n Megs of > Rob> libraries and gnucash and whatnot, and the user is told to "cd ~ && > Rob> tar -zxvf ". That would create a ~/gnucash-app directory... > > Using a .tar.gz file makes it easier for developers/packager

RE: compiling 1.6.0 on Mandrake 8.0

2001-06-18 Thread Scott Haug
Title: RE: compiling 1.6.0 on Mandrake 8.0 Hi, Arnaud, I've been monitoring your progress on the gnucash mailing list.  I don't subscribe to the list, but I wanted to get gnucash 1.6.0 installed on my Mandrake 8.0 box, so I was reading about your progress.  I just wanted to encourage you: it

Re: Dependency hell redux

2001-06-18 Thread Rob Walker
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 23:18:01 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] > said: cbbrowne> a) Having to have libs installed in some GnuCash-specific cbbrowne> place, so that there might be several copies of the _same_ cbbrowne> GNOME libs if one had GnuCash as well as RHAT as well as cbbrowne> Ximi

Re: Dependency hell redux

2001-06-18 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Rob Walker wrote: > cbbrowne> Both options provide a nice big "blech!" > > yes, it sucks, but the users are then able to run gnucash. It may be > 75 to 100 Megs of sucks, but it seems like gnucash needs that many > megs of libraries and whatnot. May I make a comment with my tongue stuck so fir

Re: Dependency hell redux

2001-06-18 Thread Phillip J Shelton
I have just read Paul Lussier's post of the 18 june 2001 Re: gnucash dependencies criticized. (I am never sure which way to read my posts. Do I start with the latest and work back or do I start with the earlest and work forward?) And I will now sit down in my corner as the comment I haven't mad

Re: Huh? Starting out with gnucash (new accounts, etc)

2001-06-18 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 09:22:43 Robin Coon wrote: > Eric Schwartz wrote: > > > >The current thing that is blocking me is setting up a brokerage > > >account. > > > > > >Create all the relevant commodities first (check) > > >Create "accounts" for each commodity in the brokerage account (check) > > >

Debian installation

2001-06-18 Thread Jonathan Corbet
So...I'm still trying to come up with a working gnucash 1.6. Still no joy in mudville. I've even gone so far as to put the vaunted Debian unstable on a system and try the apt-get command that I was so smugly told would bring me instant gnucash nirvana. No such luck. I get a gripe that gnucash

Re: Debian installation

2001-06-18 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:47:42 -0600, Jonathan Corbet > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Jonathan> I've even gone so far as to put the vaunted Debian unstable Jonathan> on a system and try the apt-get command that I was so smugly Jonathan> told would bring me instant gnucash nirvana. No such l

Re: Debian installation

2001-06-18 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:47:42PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > So...I'm still trying to come up with a working gnucash 1.6. Still no joy > in mudville. > > I've even gone so far as to put the vaunted Debian unstable on a system and > try the apt-get command that I was so smugly told would br

Re: CVS update: gnucash/src/scm/report

2001-06-18 Thread Kevin Finn
Wow, this is a huge improvement! I see the development warning and the splash screen in about 5 seconds after startup, and then the account tree comes up in another 5 or so. At least for users with somewhat older hardware like I have, I think this will be a huge usability improvement. It w