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

[Bruce Schuck]

Geert,

One additional note. In the README for gnucash-on-flatpak, you or some 
one else notes about the flatpak-cpan-generator.pl script:

"Note I have found the script to be not very version control friendly: 
generated-sources.json will change a lot between runs. It will have the 
exact same sources and dependencies, but they are shuffled around. 
Experiments indicate this is already due to the way cpanminus handles 
dependency resolution. The order in which same-level dependencies are 
processed is not stable. A minor annoyance I can live with for now."

May I suggest using the 'jq' tool.

The command "cat generated-sources.json | jq -S 'sort_by(.dest)'" will 
sort both the keys in each section (you will notice that the raw file 
may contain one module's data listed as url, dest, type, sha256; then 
the next as dest, type, sha256, url) and order the modules 
alphabetically in the output (I have not yet figured an easy way to 
ignore case).

When building a test flatpak on Ubuntu 22.04 I had to change the 
build-command in modules/perl.json to "perl-libs/install.sh" from 
"install.sh".

- Bruce S.