Reports again

[David T.]

Personally, I wouldn't recommend using Fink or Macports to run Gnucash on OS X nowadays. Been there, done that, and found it a real challenge.
My experience (I've been using Gnucash on my Mac for something like 5 
years now) is that the Mac dmg download has worked consistently well for some time, due in large part to the gargantuan efforts of John Ralls. It is by no means an "alpha" product as you suggest. With (as far as I know) just a few known issues, it works just fine.

I will grant you that I am not a heavy user of the reports. However, I have had no problem printing my reports to a pdf file (and printing that) or exporting it to HTML and munging the data as needed. Personally, I don't like the reporting engine in Gnucash at all (and wish it were a lot easier to use), but I have learned to work around it. I do wish formatting and report creation were easier, but to suggest that the software package as a whole is alpha state is misguided.


David


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From: James Wilde <james.wilde at sunde-wilde.com>
To: Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: Reports again


On Aug 30, 2011, at 18:51 , Mike Alexander wrote:

> --On August 30, 2011 9:03:15 AM +0200 James Wilde <james.wilde at sunde-wilde.com> wrote:
> 
>> Mike, I'll be glad to try this if you can give me a link to
>> instructions and a download since, as you describe it, it sounds as
>> though there is a  separate download, which one then opens in an X11
>> window.
> 
> The GnuCash project doesn't provide a prebuilt X11 version of Gnucash (for any OS).  If you want that you have to build it from source or install it using a package manager for your OS.  For OSX perhaps the easiest way to install it would be to use MacPorts (see <http://www.macports.org/>).  I haven't done this for a while, but it looks like things are up to date there and it should be fairly easy to build and install it.  The tricky part is getting all the prerequisites installed and MacPorts handles this for you.  Since MacPorts will build everything from source (or almost everything) it will take a while. The MacPorts project just added support for installing prebuilt binaries, but I don't think many things are available in that form yet.
> 
> You also have to get X11 installed, but a usable version comes with OSX.  You can install a more recent version using MacPorts or from <http://xquartz.macosforge.org/>.

Thanks for the info, Mike, but I'm going to pass on this one.  Back in the days when solaris and linux were my operating environments, it was natural - necessary even - to have a full development environment on the machine and as often as not compile and install from source.  However, nowadays the Mac is a working tool rather than a development environment.  Besides, leaving the Mac interface, aqua as you call it, in favour of X11, is not why I'm using the Mac.  An X11 window might be another thing.

//James


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