The barrier Mike is someone with the time and energy to maintain a ppa. The
reason Linux Mint (and other distros) freeze the versions they use is to reduce
their workload to maneagable proportions and to ensure that versions of other
software included witha n OS release will at least work with
Have been following this thread because I use Linux Mint, which is based
on the LTS version of Ubuntu. Yes, the GnuCash version in the Ubuntu LTS
repository is way out of date (3.8). I'm out of date, even on Windows
(3.10 in one machine, 4.3 on the other), mainly due to laziness about
chasing
