GnuCash OSX

[John Ralls]

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On Jul 5, 2009, at 5:35 PM, John Ralls wrote:

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> We're really close to being able to have a drag-and-drop .dmg. I  
> just need to patch and test dbus and we should be there.
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> Regards,
> John Ralls

Well, that's wrong, I'm afraid. I got dbus beaten into submission only  
to find that GConf has hardcoded paths. This morning I had the bright  
idea to grep for the $prefix string in the libraries in the bundle  
(which is everything recursively depended upon by Gnucash) and see how  
much else has hard-coded paths that would need to be rejiggered to  
work from inside the bundle. It turns out to be just about everything.  
Some of them (many?) might be false alarms... but they'll all have to  
be reviewed, and many will need to be patched. This isn't going to  
happen for a 2.4 release, if I'm the only one to do it, and it may be  
the wrong approach anyway.

Anyway, it's a bigger problem than just Gnucash, so I'm going to take  
it over to gtk-dev.

In the meantime, we can make an mpkg that the Installer can use to  
install the built Gnome environment with all of the hard-coded  
dependencies into perhaps /usr/local/gtk and the GnuCash.app bundle  
with everything pointing there. Does that sound feasible from your side?

Regards,
John Ralls