On Apr 22, 2011, at 2:05 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Brad Grupczynski wrote: > >> This process has felt like a rite of passage. >> >> I'm wondering if I did everything in a way that I have a good build. >> >> I was going to work on the OFX/aqbanking parser. Importing from a file and >> importing online data parses differently. I have been importing from a file >> and have switched to online and don't >> want the change. Plus it's just wrong that there are two parsers. >> >> I have been trying to build consistently for the past week. Trying different >> things and basically "tuning" my brain. >> >> I have been successful in making some changes in the code, building (in >> Eclipse) and copying the dylibs to the correct spot in my existing installed >> location (not the one that make install generates). But this was just to >> play around. Now I want to do this for real. >> >> (So sorry that this email is a little large but I like to provide a lot of >> detail. If this is not acceptable, let me know how to break it down. I >> didn't want to break it into an email for every failure but I could do that. >> I've joined the mailing list and registered in bugzilla. Anything else I >> should do to be a good contributor?) >> > > The build instructions need some updating, it seems. > > For where you are now, you need to run "gnucash-launcher" instead of gnucash. > > I usually build a release build all the way through and then go back and > "buildone --force --clean" glib, gobject, gtk+, gwenhywfar, aqbanking, and > gnucash. (You have to do them one at a time, unfortunately). > > I also usually build with the Leopard SDK, since that's what I'm targetting > for distribution. That difference is probably why you had trouble with guile > and gnutls. > > If you want to contribute, please use gnucash-svn and update it frequently so > that your patches will match the current trunk. > > You'll need to work closely with Christian Stimming on ditching libofx; he's > the only one here who really understands aqbanking and gwenhywfar. > > Thanks for the feedback, and I'm looking forward to losing yet another > dependency! > > Regards, > John Ralls
Before you ditch libofx, be sure aqbanking can import investment data streams. Libofx does a decent job with investment ofx files. Aqbanking didn't come close the last time I checked (though it has been several months since I tried it.) Dave -- David Reiser dbrei...@earthlink.net _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
