Gnucash 2.4.0 (Windows)

[David T.]

--- On Wed, 12/29/10, Colin Scott <gnucash at double-bars.net> wrote:

> From: Colin Scott <gnucash at double-bars.net>
> Subject: Re: Gnucash 2.4.0 (Windows)
> To: warlord at MIT.EDU, mortimer.hobart at gmail.com
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010, 1:46 PM
> 
> > > Why does it connect to the internet at load up?
> Why will it not 
> > > run unless it can connect to the internet?
> > 
> > The reason is ORBIT (the Gnome CORBA system); it uses
> the system's
> > Internet Address for local inter-process
> communication.  ORBIT is an
> > indirect dependency of GnuCash, it's something that
> gets used by our
> > dependencies, but not directly by Gnucash.  It's
> not our code, and 
> > it's not something that we can easily fix.
> 
> I haven't yet tried 2.4 in Windows, but as I understand
> this thr, eadlet, you are saying that it _has_ to be able to
> connect to the internet in order to run, even thought it
> doesn't actually use it.

What Derek is saying is that gconf uses ORBIT, and Gnucash uses gconf. The problem is in gconf, not Gnucash. This has been true since 2008 at least (see http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2008-November/027283.html for the last entry on the thread).

> I have to say that would be a show-stopper for me with that
> release of gnucash, as I often use gnucash in situations
> where an internet connection is not available.  I would
> also add that I could never in my role as a software
> developer have even contemplated releasing software
> containing such a bug.  You seem to be saying that this
> is going to be a permanent feature of gnucash from here
> on.  If that were to be the case I would reluctantly
> have to consider moving to other software.

This is not a bug; it's a decision by gconf/ORBIT. It seems to me the path for changing this is to contact the gnome/gconf folks (see http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/)

David

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> Colin
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