On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Derek Atkins wrote: > Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> writes: > > That was exactly my next step. > > > > RHEL as target platform is in serious trouble... > > > > 1. There's no packaged webkit for RHEL5/EPEL > > 2. RHEL5 (base) ships libdbi 0.8.1, but GnuCash uses DBI_DECIMAL_SIZEMASK > > a constant that is only defined starting from libdbi 0.8.2. > > > > I'm not sure how to proceed here. I thought webkit and dbi were the two > > major features to warrant the 2.4 release. If they're not possible on > > RHEL, can we say then that we support RHEL ? > > Well.. if webkit isn't packaged at all then it's a clear candidate for > EPEL once GnuCash gets released. > True, provided EPEL can build a webkit version that is recent enough for GnuCash. Or in other words, that webkit's dependencies in RHEL are recent enough that EPEL can build the webkit version GnuCash requires.
> A too-old libdbi, however, might be a bit of a problem for us. > Unless it's not too difficult to lower the libdbi requirement. I don't know the code that uses libdbi, but maybe it's only small changes to satisfy 0.8.1 instead of 0.8.2. > Note that there have been many other updates and bugfixes that don't > require dbi (or necessarily webkit). > > > Phill, if you read this, it may be a good idea to set a minimum required > > version for libdbi in configure.in... > > > > Geert > > -derek > Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel