[GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.9 Released

[John Ralls]

I’d never heard of winget until now. It’s run by MS but not maintained by them. Apparently random users have been updating a GnuCash manifest since 2021: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/commits/master/manifests/g/GnuCash/GnuCash but the effort petered out after 5.6 last April.

I started to create a PR but there’s some admin to do first, plus I have to install winget on a Windows box and validate and test the changes. Won’t happen today.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Oct 13, 2024, at 09:24, Boniforti Flavio <boniforti.f at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks. Will leave it as it is, because MS won't for sure do anything...
> 
> sunfish62--- via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> schrieb am So.,
> 13. Okt. 2024, 18:22:
> 
>> And I answered. I don't see this as any different from a Linux user (say,
>> of Ubuntu) asking for an update to the repository, only to be advised to
>> speak with the purveyor of the package management software.
>> 
>> In fact, Windows users have it better insofar as the latest version is
>> packaged by the GnuCash dev team and provided on gnucash.org, rather than
>> the Linux user who is at the mercy of package manager groups, who seem much
>> less likely to have the most recent binary available.
>> 
>> ⁣David T. ​
>> 
>> On Oct 13, 2024, 6:30 PM, at 6:30 PM, Adrien Monteleone <
>> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>>> MS maintains winget. As far as I can tell, they only manage the MS
>>> Store
>>> packages.
>>> 
>>> Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can publish their own packages,
>>> which is presumably how it got into the winget 'repo' in the first
>>> place.
>>> 
>>> I don't know if the official dev team manages this for GnuCash, or if
>>> that was done by someone else on their own accord.
>>> 
>>> Perhaps the repo manifest file from the existing version offers a clue
>>> or two. I personally don't use the tool at present so I can't check it
>>> to verify though.
>>> 
>>> I think it a reasonable first assumption though, to ask on this list.
>>> (or the -dev list)
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Adrien
>>> 
>>> On 10/13/24 10:23 AM, sunfish62--- via gnucash-user wrote:
>>>> Then you should ask the maintainers of winget when (or whether) they
>>> plan to add GnuCash to their system.
>>> 
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