GnuCash on CentOS 5

[Bill Nottingham]

Geert Janssens (janssens-geert at telenet.be) said: 
> RHEL as target platform is in serious trouble...
> 
> 1. There's no packaged webkit for RHEL5/EPEL
> 2. RHEL5 (base) ships libdbi 0.8.1, but GnuCash uses DBI_DECIMAL_SIZEMASK a 
> constant that is only defined starting from libdbi 0.8.2.
> 
> I'm not sure how to proceed here. I thought webkit and dbi were the two major 
> features to warrant the 2.4 release. If they're not possible on RHEL, can we 
> say then that we support RHEL ?
> 
> Phill, if you read this, it may be a good idea to set a minimum required 
> version for libdbi in configure.in...

Speaking solely for myself, I'm OK with leaving RHEL 5 at 2.2.x and pushing
2.4.x into the next version of RHEL/EPEL. But I'm not 100% sure how many
users we have on RHEL 5 that would want a newer version.

Bill