Re: [GNC-dev] Dependencies policy for major releases

2022-10-29 Thread Mike Commissaris
Not a Dev, but I build each release on MX-21 - Debian 11 based. I sometimes have needed to satisfy a dependency but that has helped educationally. Thanks to Devs for their great efforts. Mike C On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 6:45 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Mint 21

Re: [GNC-dev] Dependencies policy for major releases

2022-10-29 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Mint 21 is based on Ubuntu 22.04, so it seems there shouldn't be any serious concerns right off. Regards, Adrien On 10/29/22 7:08 PM, John Ralls wrote: I don't know how to support that: https://repology.org doesn't report linux mint 21 at all and 20 shows only 137 packages, with no entries

Re: [GNC-dev] Dependencies policy for major releases

2022-10-29 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 29, 2022, at 2:40 PM, David Cousens wrote: > > John, > I usually build the latest release from the source code on Linux Mint > (currently > 21.3) as soon as a new release comes out. My desktop is getting a bit ancient > but still has no problem with Linux. I also run the Windows

Re: [GNC-dev] Dependencies policy for major releases

2022-10-29 Thread David Cousens
John, I usually build the latest release from the source code on Linux Mint (currently 21.3) as soon as a new release comes out. My desktop is getting a bit ancient but still has no problem with Linux. I also run the Windows version on my wife's laptop (Windows 11). Not averse to having to build

Re: [GNC-dev] Dependencies policy for major releases

2022-10-29 Thread Glenn Serre
Good afternoon, On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 9:54 AM john wrote: [...] > What really makes sense? How many users are building for themselves and on > what? > No idea what makes sense for dependencies, I recently started building for myself on Debian 11, but I can and am willing to work out

[GNC-dev] Dependencies policy for major releases

2022-10-29 Thread john
We're getting close to starting the beta testing cycle for GnuCash 5.0. Part of the preparations is deciding the minimum versions to set for dependencies; those minimum versions influence what features we can support and code complexity. For example, we merged a patch last year to enable SEPA