Jonathan Corbet writes:
<snip>
> > We would very much like the opportunity to show you the new code
> > to demonstrate to you and your readers that we are making real
> > progress. Would it be at all possible to hold your review over (from
> > the main weekly bulletin) until then?
>
> The review, at this point, is out there. It has gotten quite a bit of
> traffic from the daily page, linuxtoday, NNL, etc. To pull it out at this
> point would look a bit strange.
>
Fair enough.
> I would like very much, however, to see your updated version. I could then
> put up an updated review showing the new stuff. I would sure like to see
> something other than a Motif version!
>
OK. I assume you've got all the dependancies for the Motif version,
so the only new one is gtk-xmhtml (which, if you're using Debian, is
already packaged in potato).
Check out the source from cvs.gnucash.org (follow the
instructions at http://gnucash.org/source_code.php3), then apply the
uuencoded patch which I'll send in an another mail in a moment.
If you have the "applypatch"
script, you can use that, otherwise follow the instructions contained
in the comments in the patch itself to apply the patch.
Then use the following sequence of commands:
autoconf
./configure (with any options you'd like to consider)
make gnome
make install
Fingers crossed, it'll build! (Yes, we are aware that the
dependancies can be a pain). If not, feel free to contact me.
> Next week we expect (...hope...) to run a fairly big feature. A new look
> at gnucash could come in the week after. Maybe as part of a joint review
> with moneydance - I'm not sure how you feel about that...
No problem, as far as I'm concerned. I'd be curious personally about
Moneydance.
As requested, here's a revised version of my note you can attach to the
review:
The reporting problem identified in the LWN review has already been
fixed, and the fix will hopefully go into a 1.2.6 release quite soon.
I'd also add that the GNOME code has progressed a long way
recently, and is now to the point where a 1.3 gnome-based development
release is just a matter of organisation. The latest code already
contains MANY new features and improvements, and will get
more in the near future.
If people could bear with us while some administrative matters are
sorted out, we'll get the new development release out and CVS synced
up so that many more people are able to use and further develop our code.
Robert Merkel, Gnucash peon :)
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