Mac Leopard gnucash question

[Jed Diem]

David,

Thanks.  I think I'll wait for the system update.  I've not had good 
luck (with cups from cups.org, for example) using non-Apple system 
software.  Eventually, a security update broke the non-Apple software 
and I had to re-install the system.  So I'm now gun shy.

I will try 2.2.2 from fink with Tiger.

--jed diem

Dave Reiser wrote:
> 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