2.4.9 release, 2.5.0 plans

[Ted Creedon]

what version of Guile will be supported?

tedc

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Christian Stimming
<christian at cstimming.de>wrote:

> Am Samstag, 17. Dezember 2011, 17:11:10 schrieb John Ralls:
> > > Indeed I am rather sure it will not be possible to build the 2.4 branch
> > > on windows with gtk >= 2.20, as it needs to be built with a newer
> > > webkit as well, and I think this had other implications on some gnucash
> > > webkit code.
> >
> > Having just done it, I'm quite sure that Gnucash-2.4 builds fine with the
> > latest Gnome windows binaries. Webkit 1.1.90 presented no issues and
> > appears to work just fine. (The multicolumn report whines about
> > hicolor-theme not being installed, so perhaps that should get added.)
>
> This is great news! Thank you very much for looking into this. Even better
> to
> hear that it really works. In that case we can very well upgrade the
> 2.4-build
> to the newer binaries, and have a newer gwenhywfar/aqbanking included as
> well.
>
> > The latest Gwen and AQB build fine as well, but I can't convince Gwen to
> > find her plugins. Do I need to install the registry keys in
> gwenhywfar.iss,
> > or is there a more temporary and unix-y way?
>
> The plugin directories for gwenyhwfar are looked up in two ways: Firstly by
> using the executable's installation location as a starting point (using
> binreloc on Unix and GetModuleFileName() on Windows), assuming it's
> installed
> in some $prefix/bin, and going to $prefix/lib relative from there.
> Secondly,
> on windows the paths from the registry are used, and on Unix the
> compile-time
> paths are used.
>
> According to the reports from gnucash users, with the gnucash installer the
> plugins are all found just fine. On the other hand, our gnucash.iss already
> installs all those registry keys as well. Hence, I don't know how the paths
> are actually looked up from the aqbanking in gnucash binary: Either the
> relative lookup already succeeded, or the registry paths from our
> gnucash.iss
> works fine.
>
> > Oh, and when Gwen can't find her "dir" plugin, AQB asserts (in
> config-mgr.c,
> > line 250) and crashes everything, which is a bit rude.
>
> The crash in configmgr.c:250 is gwenhywfar code GWEN_ConfigMgr_GetGroup(),
> which is called from aqbanking from somewhere. Most of the aqbanking calls
> of
> that function are already guarded against a NULL here. Any chance you can
> find
> out which aqbanking location called that function at crash time?
>
> Thanks again for the windows update! I hope this means we can go for a
> 2.4.9
> with updated gtk on windows (and also updated gwen/aqbanking) before
> Christmas...
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian
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