gnucash on Vista

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Please remember to CC the list on all your replies...

David Parsons <parsons at iinet.net.au> writes:

> Derek,
> The wiki does not include any reference to the Vista problem and as far as I
> could see the list archives have only discussed building on Vista.

Well, you could add one.  That's what the wiki is for after all.

> I found it very difficult to find any discussion about this and Google was
> no help.

Well, vista is NEW.  Very few users, and none of the developers have it.

> Can I recommend the wiki entry is updated to acknowledge the problem and
> save other users a lot of wasted search time?

Absolutely!  Go for it!

> I have previously built Gnucash on XP, so I might have a go building it on
> Vista, but I am not optimistic it will work properly, given the nature of
> the problem.
>
> I'm happy to help with testing, but I am not in a position to undertake any
> serious debugging and development.
>
> In the mean time, I will have to disable all network interfaces every time I
> need to do the accounts.
>
>  
> Regards
>
> David 

-derek

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2007 12:48 AM
> To: David Parsons
> Cc: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: gnucash on Vista
>
> David Parsons <parsons at iinet.net.au> writes:
>
>> Gnucash does not work out of the box on Vista. As you can see from
>> http://www.osalt.com/2007/01/gnucash-for-windows this seems to be caused
> by
>> some sort of networking issue.  Disabling all network interfaces lets
>> gnucash work properly, but is obviously not a solution.  I suspect
> building
>> under Vista will not cure this problem.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions how to fix this?
>
>
> Have you checked the wiki?  http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows
> It's been discussed there.  I'd also suggest you read the list
> archives.  None of the developers have Vista.
>
> -derek
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       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