Invoice API

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Tue Mar 2 12:49:55 EST 2010


On Tuesday 2 March 2010, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> >> I know Python pretty well, and could do that myself.  But I've tried
> >> to build GnuCash from source several times.  I've been a coder for
> >> twenty-two years, so long that there is no longer any kind of code
> >> that frightens me - with the exception of GnuCash.
> >
> > What OS/Distro do you use?  Building GnuCash is pretty darn easy
> > nowadays!
> 
> Mac OS X.  Therein lay the root of my problem; GnuCash could be gotten
> to work on OS X, but few if any of the dependencies were Mac-native.
> Quite often their ports from Linux to OS X were incomplete; quite
> often, the dependencies simply wouldn't build.
> 
> I only started to use GnuCash in a serious way when someone was able
> to document a reliable procedure for building the Quartz GnuCash from
> the MacPorts sources.
> 
John Ralls currently actively maintains a Mac OS X build for GnuCash. His 
complete source tree is on http://github.com/jralls/gnucash-on-osx.

If I understand it correctly, he is using the jhbuild system to manage all the 
dependencies.

If you wish to develop with GnuCash on Mac OS X, his tree is probably a good 
place to start.

> I have since moved over to Linux more or less full-time now.  I have a
> Fedora 11 box, and will - perhaps even today - put Ubuntu Karmic Koala
> on my MacBook Pro.  From now on my intention is to use OS X when I
> specifically have to, say to develop OS X software.  Aside from that,
> I think after all of these years I am finally ready to Cross Over Into
> The Light.
> 
> If you think I could build GnuCash on either Fedora 11 or Ubuntu 9.10
> without too awful much pain, then maybe I can set up that Python
> interface to the Invoice API.  It would be fun to try.
> 
See other replies. I'm building GnuCash on Mandriva and on Fedora without too 
much hassle.

> Don Quixote
> 

Geert


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