gnucash-on-windows master: Multiple changes pushed

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Wed May 6 09:45:34 EDT 2015


> On May 6, 2015, at 5:58 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 05 May 2015 18:53:56 John Ralls wrote:
>> commit e5430701af83bf1cf82d21702454c5bb832abc97
>> Author: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
>> Date:   Tue May 5 15:53:12 2015 -0700
>> 
>>    Add as a first step to install either Strawberry Perl or
>> ActivePerl.
>> 
>> diff --git a/README b/README
>> index 71fb0ab..3bc2925 100644
>> --- a/README
>> +++ b/README
>> @@ -51,11 +51,15 @@ The steps
>> On to building GnuCash now. The scripts have been set up to require
>> as little manual actions as possible. The following should get you
>> going:
>> 
>> -a. Download bootstrap_win_dev.vbs from the gnucash-on-windows
>> +a. Download and install either Strawberry Perl
>> +   (http://strawberryperl.com/) or AcivePerl
>> +   (http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads).
>> +
>> +b. Download bootstrap_win_dev.vbs from the gnucash-on-windows
>>    repository on Github. Direct url:
>> 
> This step is not needed. gnucash can be built perfectly fine with the 
> msys-perl version that gets installed automatically via install.sh. This 
> is so since I bumped the version to 5.8.x. It's ancient, I know, but 
> sufficient for the needs of building gnucash.
> 
> And I'd rather remove the manual step of installing strawberry/active 
> perl again. I went through a lot of effort to make building on Windows 
> as simple as possible. Each extra manual step raises the barrier again.

OK, reverted.

Regards,
John Ralls




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