New Mac OSX rookie

[Derek Atkins]

AHH.. In that case, by all means, please work on Inventory and Payroll ;)

-derek

Perry Smith <pedz at easesoftware.net> writes:

> 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)
> >        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
> >        warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
> >
> 
> 

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available