[GNC-dev] Mac Installation

[Adrien Monteleone]

John,

Thanks, I’ll take a look.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Dec 4, 2018, at 11:02 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> wrote:
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>> On Dec 5, 2018, at 1:49 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
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>> There seems to be a rash of confusion with installing on MacOS suddenly. I’ve been lurking here for a few years and never noticed this before. Has this been a problem in the past?
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>> I think I have a grasp on the general principle of how some other software "holds users’ hands” and guides them to drag the .app over an /Applications soft-link to ‘install’.
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>> I understand the small pool of devs are busy with more pressing matters. If there are no objections, I don’t mind doing the homework digging up details to craft a similar .dmg Finder window for GnuCash. I’d of course use artwork from the website for branding consistency.
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>> I’ll hazard the presumption based on my experience here that John Ralls is the packager for MacOS. Thoughts? Requirements?
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>> I’ll also presume any such packaging changes need to be PR’d somewhere. Is this to maint? master? (sorry, need to brush up on the procedures and branches)
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> Adrien,
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> Yes, I do the mac bundles along with everything else associated with releases. Any images and scripts would go in https://github.com/gnucash/gnucash-on-osx. The Gnu Emacs folks have it set up so you can probably borrow from them.
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> Regards,
> John Ralls