gnucash 4 android without GOOGLE PLAY?

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Thu Feb 7 11:32:34 EST 2013


On Feb 7, 2013, at 5:25 AM, Yawar Amin <yawar.amin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Liz,
> 
> On 2013-02-06, at 14:37, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> 
>> [...]
>> I have an aversion to the Google Play store also. I think we should be
>> hosting the Android version on Sourceforge with all the other versions.
> 
> The Android app is really a different project than GnuCash. The developer hosts his project infrastructure (source code, issue tracker) on GitHub. My personal opinion: I think hosting the Android download on the GnuCash SourceForge page would blur the lines between the projects and force the GnuCash developers to take on an added responsibility, taking their time away from improving GnuCash :-)
> 
> Having a pre-built app download outside the App Store is a valid concern, though. Perhaps somebody can file an enhancement request in the project's issue tracker: https://github.com/codinguser/gnucash-android/issues

That's no reason we can't host the downloadables on SF. In fact, I've offered Ngewi to do that, I just need him to send the files or to tell me where to get them.

Regards,
John Ralls




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