GnuCash OSX

[Charles Day]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:10 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

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> On Jul 11, 2009, at 10:57 AM, John Ralls wrote:
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>> On Jul 11, 2009, at 10:49 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
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>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm not a fan of /usr/local -- I'd recommend something like /opt/gnucash.
>>> How about this:  We use something like /opt/gnucash-<version> and just
>>> make that a symlink into wherever GnuCash.App gets put?  So when we run
>>> GnuCash.App the first thing it does is determine its location and then
>>> creates the /opt/gnucash-<version> symlink?
>>>
>>> Or maybe we can do this as part of the "Install" process?
>>>
>>> Then all the files can still live under GnuCash.App, and the user can
>>> still put GnuCash.App wherever they want..  They can even have multiple
>>> versions sitting side-by-side..  And all we need is a "magic symlink"
>>> to make it work?
>>>
>>>
>> What a delightfully sneaky idea! Easy to test out, too. I'll report back.
>> (In my exploration I found some more things that need to get moved into the
>> bundle, so there's a bit more work than just to create the softlink and try
>> it out, and I've got a bunch of real-life stuff to do today.)
>>
>>
> It works, too!
>
> I need to rebuild everything in /opt/gnucash-foo, but if I build app dmgs
> (one each for intel and ppc, since I'm still having trouble with getting
> gtk+ to build universal) for 2.2.9, will you guys put them up in your
> downloads area on sourceforge? I think it makes more sense there than in
> gtk-osx.
>
> Derek, Charles Day either has or is about to commit the patches. Do you
> need any help setting up your build mac for the daily snapshots?
>

I committed the patches yesterday. Were there any problems with the
overnight builds for Linux or Windows? I was able to build GnuCash here with
the mac integration features, like menus at the top of the screen instead of
inside the GnuCash window. Looks pretty good, just a couple of oddities
which John & I have been discussing off-list.

Now if I could just build aqbanking for quartz instead of X11... I'll have
to find some time to try to build qt3-mac or even qt4-mac. I haven't been
able to build them in the past.


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> Oh, there is one other thing that I need to go bang on. For some reason in
> the last month or so Price Editor stopped working, both on 2.2.9 and on svn.
>
>
> Regards
> John Ralls
>

Cheers,
Charles