Yes, I've thought about doing this. Maybe on my free time over this
summer. I was going to do this for my college project but it just
seems to small. It would really help to get people to migrate over to
linux. Well this is getting off topic for this list...
On 25 May 2000, Bill Gribble wrote:
> Garrett Banuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Maybe have 2 or 3 versions of gnucash. Source, binary and statically
> > linked everything binary for a the linux newbies who wouldn't know how to
> > install everything else.
>
> It may be unrealistic, but I would like an install experience that's
> as novice-friendly as the Windows and MacOS installers (but that works
> a lot better and doesn't install needless junk on your machine). What
> that means to me is that you put a CD in the drive, double-click an
> icon, and answer a minimal number of questions, and the rest is done
> for you. Of course you should also be able to escape this process and
> install the RPM/deb by hand, or build from source, or run the
> "friendly" installer and just produce a shell script of commands as
> output that you can inspect and run at your leisure.
>
> An installer that can deal with all this is probably a sophisticated
> enough piece of software that it would deserve being "its own thing".
>
> Bill Gribble
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