Re: [Kmymoney-devel] Getting LibOFX 0.9.4 in distributions
Jack <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:46:57 -0400
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| Message-ID | <1303343217.5084.0@ffortso4> |
[distribution list trimmed - feel free to forward as appropriate] On 2011.04.20 12:53, Benoit Gr=E9goire wrote: > Running libofx and Gnucash from source, I didn't realise that the = > dirtributions were generally years out of date, so most users were = > having numerous crashes still with OFX imports (brigning down the = > entire client application, not just libofx), as well as international = > caracter issues. Furthermore, distribution-specific patches for which = > fixes were sometimes integrated upstream years ago were sarting to = > accumulate. > = > Luckily, Christian moved us to Git (Thanks!), brigning Libofx closer = > to my usual workflow and tooling. Furthermore a recent laptop = > upgrade caused me to to use stock package and see first hand how = > disastrous the situation actually was on Ubuntu, I tried to spend = > some time sorting out the distro situation. > = > This was the focus of 0.9.4 release. Here's where we stand now: > = Trimmed info on Ubuntu, Fedora, MacOSX, Debian Gentoo Linux: Currently at 0.9.1 with an "unstable" ebuild available for 0.9.2 just = since March. (I installed it today, but haven't done any testing at = all yet.) There appears not to be a current maintainer of libofx for = the distro. I'd love to see if I can create an ebuild for 0.9.4, but I don't know = if I'll have the time in the near future. Jack ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload = Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve = application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting = the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev