Dependency hell redux

[Dan Kegel]

Bill Gribble wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:56:16AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > Bill Gribble's reply was basically "Red Hat sucks", which wasn't
> > very helpful.
> 
> Actually, I was not replying to your message but to a followup that
> called Gnucash's dependencies "assinine" and "pitiful" (or was it
> "pathetic"?) .  I didn't see this as a real attempt to get help, so I
> didn't make an attempt to give any.

Noted.

> > OK, now average users should be using 1.6.x, and your requirements page
> > *still* doesn't mention the need for Gnome 1.4.
> 
> The web site is not actively maintained.  That's a problem, yes.
> Gnucash is largely a volunteer project.  Are you volunteering to do
> this job?
> 
> There was a fairly lengthy thread, which I think I started, whose
> purpose was to generate a complete list of dependencies for
> gnucash-1.6 along with instructions for installing it on common
> distributions.  It was my impression that that document was fairly
> fleshed out.  If the information didn't end up somewhere useful, we
> should try to figure out where it is and put it somewhere people can
> find it.  I should have paid more attention to where this thread ended
> up, but I have had outside issues that have taken my attention away
> from Gnucash development.

I'd be happy to help update the requirements page.  Can you provide
the URL for that thread?  I don't see it in a quick look at the archives...
 
> > It would be Real Helpful if you said "GnuCash 1.6 requires Gnome 1.4".
> > Please make at least that change!  (Heck, this should have been
> > in the press release!)
> 
> Do you think taking this tone will help things?  How, exactly?

Sorry, I didn't mean to take a poor tone there.  I do think it would
be real helpful to at least say that GnuCash 1.6 requires Gnome 1.4,
and I was just trying to point out a minimal change to the
requirements page that would help a lot of people.
- Dan