Re: [Kmymoney-devel] Getting LibOFX 0.9.4 in distributions

Jack <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:46:57 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.finance.libofx.devel
Message-ID <1303343217.5084.0@ffortso4>
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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 dirtributions were generally years out of date, so most users were  =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
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