[GNC] Gnucash Flatpak 3.2 Mysql issue

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Tue Sep 4 10:53:30 EDT 2018



> On Sep 4, 2018, at 12:38 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 08:29, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be <mailto:geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>> wrote:
>> 
>> Op dinsdag 4 september 2018 09:19:40 CEST schreef Colin Law:
>>> Excellent, thanks for working that out.  Specifying 127.0.0.1 works
>>> for me too.  I have updated the issue [1].
>>> That means that for me the flatpak is a working solution.  However,
>>> given the fact there has been absolutely no feedback from the
>>> maintainer on any of this I am not particularly hopeful that the
>>> flatpak will be kept up to date, any more than the snap package has
>>> been.
>>> 
>> I am considering taking over maintenance of the flatpak manifest. That's also
>> how flathub envisions it should be. And it would allow us to make nightly
>> flatpaks in addition to release versions.
>> 
>> Colin, do you use online quote sources for prices ? I believe the
>> Finance::Quote module is also missing from flatpak.
> 
> That would be great.  For Ubuntu the snap package would be preferable
> but one can't have everything.
> No I don't use Finance::Quote.  On startup I see
> WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute child
> process “perl” (No such file or directory)
> I thought that perl was only used for F::Q but I don't know much about
> it.  Is there anything you would like me to try?

We do use perl only for F::Q, and that check is the first part of seeing if F::Q is available. We should probably reduce it to a PINFO, it confuses a lot of users.

Regards,
John Ralls



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