[GNC-dev] Flatpak GnuCash and Finance::Quote

[Geert Janssens]

Op dinsdag 4 oktober 2022 13:32:55 CEST schreef john:
> > On Oct 3, 2022, at 7:56 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger
> > <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > comments inline
> > 
> > Am 03.10.22 um 18:23 schrieb Bruce Schuck:
> >>> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 21:09:31 -0700 From: john <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> >>> Correct. IIUC there are a lot of things not normally included in a
> >>> flatpak installation required to run cpan, so it's not really a
> >>> practical option. We build Finance::Quote and all of its dependencies
> >>> from source tarballs, see
> >>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-flatpak/blob/master/modules/financ
> >>> e-quote-sources.json. Unfortunately F::Q has a lot of dependencies and
> >>> the list isn't
> >>> stable, so keeping up with the latest often falls in the "too much
> >>> effort" category and doesn't get done.
> >>> If there's a better way, please share.

As it was me really who implemented Finance::Quote support in flatpak, I can share how I 
got the list of dependencies. I looked at the dependencies for the Fedora rpm for F::Q and 
just copied all dependencies from there.

It's true this remains largely manual work. However to update, I would again check the 
current version numbers of all dependencies as found in a recent Fedora repo and use 
those. If we do this from time to time (eg each time a Fedora is released - that is every 
half year), we can more or less keep up. At least someone else has figured out a working 
set of dependencies each time.

The other option is to just do the dependency updates each time a new F::Q is released or 
whenever F::Q requires newer dependencies than we currently have.
Regardless the option, we will have to go through this from time to time unfortunately.

Regards,

Geert