[GNC-dev] About Gnucash

[John Ralls]

It is easy: Just look at https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-flatpak/blob/master/modules/aqbanking.json. There's a history button on the right side near the top that you can use to look back to when your flatpak was built.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Feb 18, 2020, at 4:29 PM, Chris Graves <mohavebaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Frank,
> Thanks for the tip, I recently learned of the aqbanking-cli command and have been searching for a guide on it's use.  From what I've found (or not), looks like I'll have to review the source code.
> 
> Also, with all the recent issues with AQB for both HBCI and OFX users, I was thinking that it would be nice to have quick, easy access to it's version info.  Not so easy/obvious from a flatpak install unless I'm missing something (though I have found how to access it).
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 8:30 PM Frank H. Ellenberger <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> To get the important versions of Aqbanking and it's helper library
> Gwenhywfar, you can enter the command
>  aqbanking-cli versions
> 
> Regards
> Frank
> 
> Am 18.02.20 um 04:45 schrieb John Ralls:
> > 
> > 
> >> On Feb 17, 2020, at 4:26 PM, chris graves <mohavebaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On the About GnuCash window, is displayed among other things
> >> Version
> >> Build ID
> >> Finance::Quote
> >>
> >> Question, should the AQBanking version be displayed as well?  Or perhaps is this just opening up a whole can of worms for all included third party s/w?
> > 
> > Not really a can of worms, but not really necessary because unless the user is building dependencies themselves we can pretty easily find out what version of any dependency they've got: We build the Mac and Windows bundles ourselves and https://repology.org will tell us pretty quickly what version of any dependency goes with any distro. 
> > 
> > Finance::Quote is a bit different because it's so easily obtained/upgraded from CPAN that a lot of users won't have what's in their distros; it's also installed outside of the Windows and Mac bundles.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
>