upgrade question

[Phil]

On 02 Jul 2003 19:54:56 -0400, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Nobody has offered to be the Mandrake Maintainer (or SuSE
> maintainer)..  A few people have offered some one-offs, but the
> current release engineer is looking for people who are committed to
> actually building RPMS for EVERY gnucash release.  It's not a
> tremendous amount of work, but nobody has been willing to make that
> commitment.
>
> -derek
>

I'm interested enough to learn more about what is involved and how often 
releases come out.  If it's how you describe then I could commit for every 
gnucash release.

I'm fairly new to linux but working on improving my abilities all the time. 
 I've been a programmer for about 10 years but mostly on AS/400's which has 
a completely different commandline syntax to unix.

I read a thread on mandrakeusers.org 
http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=5559&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 
 where a user needed to use cooker packages to get it to compile.  If 
that's necessary, though, then I'm not inclined to want to do it.  I've 
been bitten by cooker packages in the past and have learned it's best to 
wait for them to become official.

Phil