Geert, Agree with all the points you and david Carlson made. I had expected and guessed that the GnuCashbuild configured its search directories for resources from the cmake install prefix, but hadn't actually checked it out to be sure.
The problem as I see it is recommending a setup for a novice or inexperienced user new to building and installing who may or may not have admin privileges to use that will allow them to install and uninstall fairly easily even when they no longer have the build directory and access to the make uninstall. Even with a little bit of development experience you can usually work it out for yourself. A user who is primarily interested in just using Gnucash and doesn't want to know about the nitty gritty of development per se but wants to be using the most up to date version, on the other hand, will get frustrated if every time he has to update, he has to figure out what went where and how to get rid of it. I'll rework the Wiki page to use a non hidden directory with a gnucash specific subdirectory as an install point in the example rather than $HOME/.local and just add notes to the effect that this directory can be hidden if desired by prefixing it with a dot. Then a simple rm -rf can be used easily. I'll also add some notes about setting up aliases to start it up. That should cover the user new to building from source. Then anyone who wants a more sophisticated setup can roll their own. cheers David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
