Will GnuCash ever work for me?

[Dave Peticolas]

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On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 17:04, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:17:32PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> > > The Gnome homepage seems to disagree:
> >=20
> > No, it doesn't, it just refers you to Ximian to get
> > *their* packages of Gnome 1.4.=20
>=20
> Sure, but they're obviously packages that are endorsed by the Gnome
> project, such as it is.  And if it's compiled from the same exact
> source code, then practically speaking, what's the difference (besides
> a few desktop icons)?  If there is a practical difference, why does
> the Gnome project not provide its own dowloads, but instead send you

There is a practical difference, namely, the way the Ximian
packages do or do not conform to the standards of the respective
distributions they are created for. In the case of Debian, they
often do not. *That* is the issue here, not the commonality of
the code base.

dave


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