Mac Leopard gnucash question

[Dave Reiser]

Jed Diem wrote:
> Will currently working versions of gnucash running under Tiger 10.4.11 
> continue to run after a Leopard upgrade?
> 
> Specifically, I have gnucash 2.0.2 in /sw compiled using fink libraries 
> running under Tiger 10.4.11.  If I upgrade to Leopard, will it continue 
> to work as is.
> 
> Same question for gnucash 2.2.1 in /opt  built using macports on a 
> different machine than the one with 2.0.2.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- jed diem

Possibly. One potential problem is that the x11 shipped with leopard is 
horrendously buggy. Several weeks of extensive effort by a couple apple 
programmers has resulted in an update available from macosforge.org. 
Since that has been stable for a month, I'm kind of expecting it to show 
up in the next system update. If you update to leopard now, plan on 
retrieving the x11/xquartz update. It is x.org's version of x11, so it's 
a bit different from the tiger x11.

gnucash 2.2.2 from fink works fine. Why not update? I did make some 
changes to the gnucash2 packaging description in fink so that there are 
separate 10.4 and 10.5 versions of the package, but that's mostly just 
making sure that gnucash uses the system installed perl when it needs a 
version of perl.

I have no idea about macports' stability to leopard updates.

Dave
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David Reiser
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