Gnucash 2.3.0 released
Kim_Wood
kim.wood at bigpond.net.au
Mon May 18 16:53:37 EDT 2009
Thanks Derek,
That would be really helpful. I am a long-term GNUCash user, and I am very
happy to test builds, but not that interested in building frankly.
Regards,
Kim
Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> I'm happy to work with the Win32 devs to setup a Win32 VM with a nightly
> build setup on the GnuCash VM host..
>
> -derek
>
> Quoting Kim_Wood <kim.wood at bigpond.net.au>:
>
>>
>> Anyone prepared to post a link to a Windows build of 2.3.0? Any plan for
>> the
>> nightly builds to return?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kim Wood
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> plongstaff wrote:
>>>
>>> GnuCash 2.3.0 released
>>>
>>> The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.0, the first
>>> of
>>> several unstable 2.3.x releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software
>>> which
>>> will eventually lead to the stable version 2.4.0. With this new release
>>> series, GnuCash can use an SQL database using SQLite3, MySQL or
>>> PostgreSQL. It
>>> runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX. This release is intended
>>> for
>>> developers and testers who want to help tracking down all those bugs
>>> that
>>> are
>>> still in there.
>>>
>>> WARNING WARNING WARNING - Make sure you make backups of any files used
>>> in
>>> testing versions of GnuCash in the 2.3.x series. Although the developers
>>> go to
>>> great lengths to ensure that no data will be lost we cannot guarentee
>>> that
>>> your data will not be affected if for some reason GnuCash crashes in
>>> testing
>>> these releases.
>>>
>>> PLEASE TEST TEST AND TEST SOME MORE any and all features important to
>>> you.
>>> Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla
>>>
>>> Getting GnuCash
>>>
>>> GnuCash 2.3.0 can be downloaded from gnucash.org. It is available as
>>> source code.
>>>
>>> To install GnuCash, users will need Gnome 2, guile, and slib. Neither
>>> the
>>> currently used swig nor the previously used g-wrap packages are needed
>>> anymore
>>> when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary.
>>>
>>> * http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/2.3.x
>>>
>>> cd401475075b3b7f490444ff45569b5a gnucash-2.3.0.tar.bz2
>>> afa22b610ef38cf0a367eeb17b74a292 gnucash-2.3.0.tar.gz
>>> 60bc6ab7637562274edd6850ff0d82a1 webkit-1.1.5-win32.zip
>>>
>>> Major changes in this release include;
>>>
>>> * In addition to the XML backend, Gnucash can now use a SQLite3, MySQL
>>> or
>>> PostgreSQL database tostore the data. This is a new implementation using
>>> libdbi. It supports all features including the business features. In
>>> order to
>>> build with this, add --enable-dbi to the configure command. In addition
>>> to the
>>> libdbi-dev package for your distribution, you will also need the
>>> appropriate
>>> DBD (libdbi driver) package for sqlite3, mysql or postgresql.
>>> * In addition to the current GtkHTML HTML engine used to display reports
>>> and
>>> graphs, Gnucash canuse WebKit. WebKit is the engine used by Google
>>> Chrome
>>> on
>>> Windows and Safari on Apple. In order to build with this, add
>>> --enable-webkit
>>> to the configure command. You will need an appropriate webkit-dev
>>> package. On
>>> win32, you will need to download the webkit-1.1.5-win32.zip file from
>>> the
>>> source repository and put it into the downloads directory of your
>>> gnucash
>>> build area.
>>> * Updated to AqBanking 3 on Win32.
>>>
>>> Caveats for Testers
>>>
>>> * Any 2.3.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during
>>> runtime.
>>> If
>>> you test some serious work in a 2.3.x release and are using the XML file
>>> backend for data storage, make sure you hit "Save" after every
>>> non-trivial
>>> workstep. If you are using the SQL backend, this is not required as
>>> every
>>> change is saved immediately to the database.
>>> * The documentation has had screenshots updated, however, many help
>>> texts
>>> usually only refers to the 1.8.x series. Everyone is invited to help
>>> improve
>>> the documentation; see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development on how
>>> to
>>> get
>>> involved.
>>>
>>> How can you help?
>>>
>>> * Testing: Test it and help us discover all bugs that might show up in
>>> there.
>>> Please enter each and every bug into bugzilla.
>>> * Translating: The new release comes with some new translation strings.
>>> If
>>> you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this
>>> release
>>> already. A string freeze will be announced in one of the later 2.3.x
>>> releases.
>>> Please check http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates
>>> on
>>> this.
>>>
>>> We would like to encourage people to test this and any further releases
>>> as
>>> much as possible and submit bug reports in order that we can polish
>>> GnuCash to
>>> be as stable as possible for the 2.4.0 release in a few weeks. Then post
>>> any
>>> bugs you find to
>>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
>>> bugzilla
>>>
>>> About the Program
>>>
>>> GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU
>>> General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris,
>>> Mac
>>> OSX and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and
>>> its
>>> first
>>> stable release was in 1998.
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
>>>
>>>
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