Homebrew isn't necessarily irrelevant, but if you decide to build with jhbuild and gtk-osx (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/Quartz) it gets in the way.
There's another, older, turn-your-mac-into-linux system called MacPorts that provides GnuCash. You'll wind up building yourself but you may find that it's less painful than gtk-osx, particularly if you want to keep Homebrew. There are instructions for this build at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/MacPortsDetail. GnuCash developer emeritus Mike Alexander uses this method. You might also be able to install all of the dependencies with Homebrew and then build GnuCash on top of that. I've never tried and there's no existing recipe so you'd have to figure out what are the Homebrew names for everything and get it all installed. Once you have the dependencies in place building isn't hard and doesn't require any C/C++ or Scheme programming skill, just some familiarity with build systems like Cmake. Yes, you will have to build a new GnuCash every time you want to upgrade, but once you have everything set up and working it's just running a single build script and waiting an hour or four. Regards, John Ralls > On May 7, 2020, at 11:22 AM, Hal Vaughan <hal@hal.dance> wrote: > > It took me time to do some research on this. (Even with staying at home now, > I have a ton going on and had to spend several full days just fixing my > tractor.) > > Homebrew looked like it wasn’t much of a problem and I installed it. > Everything still works. (That’s another part of research - I still have to > go through the folder where all my scripts are and figure out which ones I > still need that may be using oddball or outdated Perl or Python modules. I > have notes on a number of them that I use whenever I upgrade to a new > computer, so that’ll help, but it’s still a time waster!) > > So, ignoring the entertaining auto-correct issue here, if I use Homebrew, it > just installs from a stock .dmg image. So if I want Python bindings, > Homebrew is irrelevant? As in it doesn’t matter if I use it or not, I can > just get the source code for GC and compile it on my system to get the > bindings. Is that right? > > That leads to a number of questions: > 1. I’m not inexperienced as a programmer, but it’s almost all with Perl, > Python, and Java. Years ago I did some C++, but have done very little in > learning how to control compilers. How hard is compiling GC from scratch? > 2. If I compile from scratch, do I have to add anything extra to get Python > bindings, or do I just have to select the option for that when I compile? > 3. What about upgrades? Will I have to recompile GC every time I want to > upgrade it on my system? (That is, assuming I want to keep the bindings?) > > From what people are saying, trying to add entries is not good, but that I > can import from a CSV or TSV file. > > While that was on another branch of this thread, that does bring up a few > questions: > > 1. Is there any protection to keep GC from importing the same transaction > multiple times? For instance, if I have a transaction for interest in a CSV > file, then add another in the file and re-import, will GC note one > transaction it’s importing is identical to another and flag it for me? > 2. Is there any way, from within GC, to run an external script that would > create the interest entries? Then, once they’re created, I could import that > CSV file? Or would I have to run the interest calculating script from > outside GC? > > > Hal > >> On Apr 30, 2020, at 11:51 PM, D. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> Hal, >> >> John Ralls, the person who manages the Mac end of GnuCash, has pointed out >> that Homebrew simply uses the GnuCash dmg for its installation. That dmg >> does not include python bindings, so the answer to your question is "No, >> Homebrew does not include python. You would need to clozapine GnuCash >> yourself." >> >> David T. >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> From: Hal Vaughan <hal@hal.dance> >> Sent: Fri May 01 01:32:14 GMT+05:30 2020 >> To: Gnucash <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> >> Subject: Re: [GNC] Adding Transactions From Another Program >> >> Actually, this has me looking over what I am and am not still using. >> >> Since Mac is still using Python 2.7, but Catalina is coming up and that >> includes Python 3.x. So I’m looking over what I use and what I don’t among >> my decades of scripts. >> >> Last I looked, pretty much every system like that usurped the originals. At >> the time, when I looked them over, it became clear to me why they did that >> and it made sense. But, again, that decision was something like 10 years >> ago and I haven’t had time or cause to revisit it - until now. >> >> Do you know if Homebrew can provide the Python bindings for GC? >> >> >> Hal >> >>> On Apr 30, 2020, at 2:27 AM, Adrien Monteleone >>> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: >>> >>> Have you investigated Homebrew vs. MacPorts? >>> >>> Just curious if the Perl issues are the same. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Adrien >>> >>>> On Apr 30, 2020 w18d121, at 12:29 AM, Hal Vaughan <hal@hal.dance> wrote: >>>> >>>> I’ve checked out the bindings - as I mentioned in my original post, the >>>> problem is that using the bindings on a Mac requires MacPorts. I’ve had >>>> issues before, since MacPorts (and other similar systems) usurp some of >>>> the normal paths for things like Perl and Python. I don’t use Perl for >>>> coding anymore, but I have Perl scripts I’ve been using for over a decade >>>> that do some simple work for me. I had an important Perl script I was >>>> using that used a specific Perl library. I don’t remember which one it >>>> was, but when I added MacPorts and tried to run my script a week later, it >>>> crashed. >>>> >>>> I had no idea MacPorts, Fink, Homebrew, and similar systems usurped the >>>> normal system paths for scripting languages. When I installed it, and it >>>> took over for Perl, it put in a system without all the libraries my >>>> scripts used and some of the libraries that were available to me with a >>>> standard Perl install (libraries I had installed from CPAN) would not >>>> install in the new system. I had to completely remove MacPorts to get my >>>> old scripts to work. >>>> >>>> I’d love to use MacPorts, since it makes a lot available to me that I >>>> can’t easily add now (unless I start using a Linux VM), but that >>>> experience taught me never to trust such a system. >>>> >>>> I think it would be a lot easier for me to do this with Python bindings, >>>> but I still use older scripts for things I need to do once a month or once >>>> a year and I don’t want to risk breaking them again like they broke about >>>> a decade ago when I installed MacPorts. >>>> >>>> >>>> Hal >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >>> ----- >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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