New Mac OSX rookie

Perry Smith pedz at easesoftware.net
Sun Jun 29 20:57:34 CDT 2003


Thanks Derek.

I'll try it with fink.

As far as the features I want to add, I was hoping to be able to 
contribute and didn't assume it was a simple snap of the fingers or 
else it would already be there.

I'll bring it up, explore the code,  watch this list, and then go from 
there when I get comfortable.

Perry

On Sunday, Jun 29, 2003, at 19:46 US/Central, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Perry Smith <pedz at easesoftware.net> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am attempting to get GNUCash up on Mac OSX.  I looked at the archive
>> of this list and there are only two hits for "mac osx".  I've started
>> a VERY rough journal of my adventures of trying to get GNUCash to
>> compile on the Mac.  You can see my adventures here:
>>
>> http://www.easesoftware.net/GNUCash_project.html
>
>   GnuCash works great on MacOS X.  Try:
>
>         go to fink.sourceforge.net
>         download and install fink
>         fink updateself
>         pull in the (from-unstable) gnucash-1.8.4 specification
>         fink install gnucash
>         wait about 10-24 hours for it to build everything --
>                 be sure to check back periodically in case it needs
>                 user input.
>
>> I am hoping to keep the journal and eventually clean it up so that
>> other Mac users can follow my footsteps.  But if someone else has
>> already done this, I'm happy to follow them.  I may, in fact, start
>> completely over from scratch.  I spent a weekend about a month ago on
>> this.  At that time, the GNUCash mailing lists had a message that said
>> the lists were broken.  I was doing my work without CVS or fink.  It
>> may be much easier to use both of those in the process.
>
> Uh, yea... Do it with fink...
>
>> My goal is to move GNUCash towards business applications.  I need
>> payroll and inventory.  So far, I have not seen those listed on the
>> features.  I am curious first to see if GNUCash is closer to a real
>> accounting system or if it follows too closely in Quicken's footsteps.
>> I'm planning on using the DB backend.  I even have fantasies of
>> hooking all this up to a web based store to sell my photography.
>
> GnuCash 1.8 already does have some small business features, however it
> does not have payroll or inventory.  It is a real accounting system
> (although the UI tries to make life simple) however adding those
> features is not a simple "change some SQL".  Also, the postgres
> backend does not support the business features at this time, so,
> unfortuately, you can't do what you want at this point in time....
>
>> So... in short, if anyone can help me with bring up of GNUCash on Mac
>> OSX, I would love to hear from them.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Perry Smith
>
> Enjoy..
>
> -derek
>
> -- 
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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