[GNC] Adding Transactions From Another Program

Fri May 1 01:10:09 EDT 2020

Just in case GnuCash gets hysterical??

David
On Thu, 2020-04-30 at 22:04 -0700, John Ralls wrote:
> Maybe one supplied by a drug manufacturer. Google tells me that Clozapine is an antipsychotic.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
> > On Apr 30, 2020, at 9:54 PM, D. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> > 
> > "clozapine"="compile"
> > 
> > Not sure what dictionary my machine is using! 
> > 
> > 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > From: "D. via gnucash-user" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> > Sent: Fri May 01 09:21:46 GMT+05:30 2020
> > To: Hal Vaughan <hal at hal.dance>
> > Cc: "D. via gnucash-user" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Adding Transactions From Another Program
> > 
> > Hal, 
> > 
> > John Ralls, the person who manages the Mac end of GnuCash, has pointed out that Homebrew simply uses the GnuCash dmg
> > for its installation. That dmg does not include python bindings, so the answer to your question is "No, Homebrew
> > does not include python. You would need to clozapine GnuCash yourself."
> > 
> > David T. 
> > 
> > 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > From: Hal Vaughan <hal at hal.dance>
> > Sent: Fri May 01 01:32:14 GMT+05:30 2020
> > To: Gnucash <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Adding Transactions From Another Program
> > 
> > Actually, this has me looking over what I am and am not still using.
> > 
> > Since Mac is still using Python 2.7, but Catalina is coming up and that includes Python 3.x.  So I’m looking over
> > what I use and what I don’t among my decades of scripts.
> > 
> > Last I looked, pretty much every system like that usurped the originals.  At the time, when I looked them over, it
> > became clear to me why they did that and it made sense.  But, again, that decision was something like 10 years ago
> > and I haven’t had time or cause to revisit it - until now.
> > 
> > Do you know if Homebrew can provide the Python bindings for GC?
> > 
> > 
> > Hal
> > 
> > > On Apr 30, 2020, at 2:27 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Have you investigated Homebrew vs. MacPorts?
> > > 
> > > Just curious if the Perl issues are the same.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Adrien
> > > 
> > > > On Apr 30, 2020 w18d121, at 12:29 AM, Hal Vaughan <hal at hal.dance> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I’ve checked out the bindings - as I mentioned in my original post, the problem is that using the bindings on a
> > > > Mac requires MacPorts.  I’ve had issues before, since MacPorts (and other similar systems) usurp some of the
> > > > normal paths for things like Perl and Python.  I don’t use Perl for coding anymore, but I have Perl scripts I’ve
> > > > been using for over a decade that do some simple work for me.  I had an important Perl script I was using that
> > > > used a specific Perl library.  I don’t remember which one it was, but when I added MacPorts and tried to run my
> > > > script a week later, it crashed.
> > > > 
> > > > I had no idea MacPorts, Fink, Homebrew, and similar systems usurped the normal system paths for scripting
> > > > languages.  When I installed it, and it took over for Perl, it put in a system without all the libraries my
> > > > scripts used and some of the libraries that were available to me with a standard Perl install (libraries I had
> > > > installed from CPAN) would not install in the new system.  I had to completely remove MacPorts to get my old
> > > > scripts to work.
> > > > 
> > > > I’d love to use MacPorts, since it makes a lot available to me that I can’t easily add now (unless I start using
> > > > a Linux VM), but that experience taught me never to trust such a system.
> > > > 
> > > > I think it would be a lot easier for me to do this with Python bindings, but I still use older scripts for
> > > > things I need to do once a month or once a year and I don’t want to risk breaking them again like they broke
> > > > about a decade ago when I installed MacPorts.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Hal
> > > 
> > > 
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