From gnomedesktop forum: Mac OS X port?

[Derek Atkins]

Peter O'Gorman has done a lot of work to make GnuCash compile
on Mac OSX.  You can check the archives for his address,
and to ask him questions about it.  However, I am fairly
sure that GnuCash can work fine with the Fink environement.

-derek

Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de> writes:

> This question was posted as a comment in the gnomedesktop.org
> forum. Maybe somebody can post an answer (I don't know enough about
> that):
> 
> Hi
> 
> Forgive the intrusion, but I've been trying to get the following
> message and question to the gnucash developer community and can't find
> any email addresses at all.
> 
> -------------------
> First, a sincere thank you to all the GNUCash developers. As a
> long-suffering MS Money user, you have provided the key to my
> company's finally being able to break away from the utter crap that is
> MS software. GnuCash's clean architecture (double-entry, account
> hierarchies, journal entries) are like an oasis of sanity in the
> desert of Money lossage.
> 
> Here's my question. Now that Mac OS X is FreeBSD based, I'm tempted to
> replace all our Wintel boxes with Macs. Although I once hacked Unix
> back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, I have a business to run and need
> to buy a fairly tightly packaged system that consumes a minimal amount
> of mental bandwidth. These days, Macs look pretty attractive in that
> regard.
> 
> Has anybody looked into this port? Is there anything about Acqua (or
> whatever Apple is calling their GUI this week) that's incompatible wih
> GNOME/GNUCash?
> 
> In other words, do I need to give up my Mac dreams to get GNUCash?
> 
> Any guidance would be appreciated; please reply to bamford@oz.net --- 
> Thanks Mucho.
> 
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