r20013 - htdocs/trunk/news - Re-phrased the news to distinguish the win32 binary from the source code even more clearly.

Christian Stimming cstim at code.gnucash.org
Fri Dec 31 07:13:20 EST 2010


Author: cstim
Date: 2010-12-31 07:13:20 -0500 (Fri, 31 Dec 2010)
New Revision: 20013
Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/20013

Modified:
   htdocs/trunk/news/101221-2.4.0.news
Log:
Re-phrased the news to distinguish the win32 binary from the source code even more clearly.

Modified: htdocs/trunk/news/101221-2.4.0.news
===================================================================
--- htdocs/trunk/news/101221-2.4.0.news	2010-12-31 12:07:01 UTC (rev 20012)
+++ htdocs/trunk/news/101221-2.4.0.news	2010-12-31 12:13:20 UTC (rev 20013)
@@ -5,11 +5,6 @@
 
 <p>The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.0, the latest stable release of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. With this new release series, GnuCash can use an SQL database using SQLite3, MySQL or PostgreSQL. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX.</p>
 
-<div class="dialog warning">
-<p><b>WARNING:</b> You should uninstall any earlier GnuCash version from your system prior to installing 2.4.0.</p>
-<p>Failing to do so may result in startup errors. In particular on Windows this may cause "Parse error: entry point not found" errors.</p>
-</div>
-
 <p>Major changes in the 2.4.0 release include;
 <ul>
 <li>In addition to the XML backend, Gnucash can now use a SQLite3, MySQL or PostgreSQL database to store 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.</li>
@@ -17,21 +12,22 @@
 <li>Updated AqBanking on Win32.</li>
 </ul>
 
-<h3>Getting GnuCash</h3>
-<p>Source code for GnuCash 2.4.0 can be downloaded from:
+<h3>Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary)</h3>
+<p>The <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.0-setup.exe">Gnucash 2.4.0 Win32 setup executable</a> can be downloaded from Sourceforge well. It will install everything needed to run GnuCash.
+
+<h3>Mac OSX binary</h3>
+<p>The <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-2.4.0.dmg">Gnucash 2.4.0 MacOSX package</a> can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well.
+
+<h3>Getting GnuCash as source code</h3>
+<p>If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.0 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:
 <ul>
 <li>Sourceforge: <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.0.tar.bz2">bzip2</a>, <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.0.tar.gz">gzip</a>, <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20(stable)/2.4.0/">all files</a>.</li>
 <li>You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion repository with this command:<br/><br/><span style="font-family: monospace;">svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/tags/2.4.0 gnucash</span></li>
 </ul></p>
 
-<p>To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2, guile, slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from subversion.</p>
+<p>To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need Gnome 2, guile, slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from subversion.</p>
 
-<h3>Win32 binary</h3>
-<p>The <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.0-setup.exe">Gnucash 2.4.0 Win32 setup executable</a> can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well.
 
-<h3>Mac OSX binary</h3>
-<p>The <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-2.4.0.dmg">Gnucash 2.4.0 MacOSX package</a> can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well.
-
 <p>Changes between 2.3.17 and 2.4.0 include:
 
 <ul>



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