Release of GnuCash 1.6.8

[Thomas Spahni]

On 22 Aug 2002, Chris Lyttle wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 04:01, Thomas Spahni wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Christian Stimming wrote:
> > 
> > > Thomas Spahni wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On 22 Aug 2002, Chris Lyttle wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >> The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of stable version
> > > >>1.6.8. This is to fix some minor bugs that prevented the last release
> > > >>being easy to compile from source.
> > > > 
> > > > Oh... another 15.9M to download ...
> > > > wouldn't a patch be enough?
> > > 
> > > Oh really, 15.9 M :-(
> > > 
> > > However, if 1.6.7 is working for you, then you definitely don't need to 
> > > use 1.6.8. That release is really meant for people who ran into some 
> > > configure and dependency problems.
> > 
> > Christian,
> > 
> > thanks; my only problem was that I had to *downgrade* one package (I think
> > it was g-wrap) to make 1.6.7 compile. This was very unexpected because I
> > assumed that I could compile 1.6.7 on a setup which compiled 1.6.6 well,
> > without downgrading something.
> > 
> This is just plain wrong. GnuCash's g-wrap requirements haven't changed
> since the release of the 1.6 series. You certainly dont have to
> downgrade. 1.6.8 will work with any g-wrap from 1.1.11 to 1.2.1 (the
> latest for the 1.6 series). The only change we made to the check for
> g-wrap was to make sure people were not trying to use the g-wrap that
> only works with CVS GnuCash (The 1.3.x g-wrap series).

Chris,

that's it! I had g-wrap-1.3.1 and it appears that 1.6.6 compiled with this
version.

Regards,
Thomas