why not solve the dep. problem once ?

why not solve the dep. problem once ?

Whoa, that's a lot of design changes just b/c of release constraints !

why not, instead:

1) create a single directory-tree including _ALL_ the libraries and tools that gnucash needs, for the current dev. version., in binary form.
plus, perhaps, a small scriptlet to source for the environment vars.

2) tar bzip the tree.

3) repeat 1-2 for the latest versions of 4 major distribs (RH, SUSE, MDK, DEB testing or unstable)

4) repeat 1-3 for each new gnucash dev. version.

release as a sort of "permanent alpha/beta" status package. (i.e. for devs only)

In other words, I view the compilation problems as more of a distribution difficulty (as in distributing to the client, not as in lin. dist.) than as a design defect. The solution should be in that direction.