State of the GnuCash project

State of the GnuCash project

Posted Aug 12, 2003 7:20 UTC (Tue) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)
In reply to: State of the GnuCash project by stevep
Parent article: State of the GnuCash project

Exactly. The Dependancy-Hell has been the sole factor stopping me personally from contributing to Gnucash. I actually tried. Twice. I started by doing the same thing I would do with any project where I want to contribute:

Get the newest version from CVS, and compile it.

Unfortunately that is as far as I came, infact compiling it never worked.

* It needed like 20 different libraries.
* Half of those are not in the standard distros.
* A few of those must be one spesific version (not older, not newer)
* Installing that spesific version would blow up other software that depends on a newer version.
* Installing /both/ the older and the newer version migth in principle work, but is a chore.

So, in both cases, having wasted half a daz for what should be a 20 minute procedure, I just gave up. I strongly suspect there are dozens of other programmers with similar experiences.

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