QOF - Debian and OSX packaging
Neil Williams
linux at codehelp.co.uk
Wed May 18 17:25:51 EDT 2005
Just a little note, I've fixed a few problems in the QOF CVS recently and it
should now build a distribution direct from CVS.
I've created a test Debian package and a Mac OSX (Fink) package. Each builds
correctly on the target platform (OSX 10.3, Debian unstable) and each
validates against the common package checking tools for each platform, fink
and lintian/linda. I'm liaising with the current Debian maintainer for QOF so
that I can help out as co-maintainer. I intend to offer QOF for Fink fairly
soon after the next QOF release.
Whilst the next release of QOF itself is a little way off yet (there's a bit
more code to add to the backend), if anyone feels like working on a .spec
file for an RPM or any other package format, feel free to use the CVS and do
a few test builds.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qof
If there are changes required to the main tarball, let me know - but
package-specific files like the .spec, the OSX .info and the debian/ files
won't be committed to the main tree.
Currently, CVS builds as qof-0.5.2 but I may jump to qof-0.6.0 for the next
release and there may well be binary-incompatibility with existing qof-0.5.0
code (testing at the moment) so the library version is likely to go to 1.0.0
(as in current CVS).
A Pilot-QOF release will follow, which will depend on pilot-link 0.12 and QOF,
probably before the G2 port is ready.
Providing qof-0.5.2 includes all the code from the current GnuCash src/engine
and src/backend/qsf codebase, are there likely to be conflicts with G2 (or
GnuCash 1.8?) on the same system? Will such conflicts only affect those
developing both QOF and GnuCash?
Comments on the dependencies, conflicts, versioning, libraries, export of
compiler cflags / libs, structure of the tarball and anything else - direct
to me please.
On Debian, the package will be libqof1 and on OSX qof0. (Should this be
synchronised?) libqof1 on Debian will replace libqof-0.5.0-1.
Thanks.
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