[GNC-dev] Dependencies policy for major releases

[John Ralls]

> On Oct 29, 2022, at 2:40 PM, David Cousens <davidcousens49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> John,
> I usually build the latest release from the source code on Linux Mint (currently
> 21.3) as soon as a new release comes out. My desktop is getting a bit ancient
> but still has no problem with Linux. I also run the Windows version on my wife's
> laptop (Windows 11). Not averse to having to build dependencies from scratch on
> Linux if I have to but would prefer not to where possible. 
> I tried Flatpak early on when there was a bit of extra setup to configure access
> to the system resources but haven't been back now that most of those have likely
> been sorted.

David,

I don't know how to support that: https://repology.org doesn't report linux mint 21 at all and 20 shows only 137 packages, with no entries for aqbanking, anything starting with lib including libgtk+-3.0, libofx, or libxml, nor sqlite3. Searching for those names at http://packages.linuxmint.com also produced nothing. However, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint says that Mint follows Ubuntu LTS releases with a slight delay. As long as that's true and you keep up to date with new releases you should have no problems.

Regards,
John Ralls