| From: SternData <subscribed-lists(a)sterndata.com>
| Version 3.0 was released the other day. Are there plans to update the
| version in the repos? I don't see anything in updates-testing.
I'm looking forward to it because some gnucash bugs were caused by
using an old version of webkit and 3.0 moves to a newer version.
I tried to build it myself, under Fedora 27.
It came with no .spec file. That's fine: I'd like to keep the old
version while playing with the new one, so creating and installing a
.rpm is probably not the way for me to go. Still, it would be nice to
have a .spec. On the other hand, each distro using a .spec would
probably need a different one -- too bad.
A README talks about a .spec, but it is quite quite old and not even
included in the distributed tarball.
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https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/maint/packaging/README.RPM>
The documentation for building under Fedora is quite wrong. It seems
to assume that you've installed a source RPM (for build dependencies)
and then doesn't use that .spec. Of course the real build
dependencies might well be different from those in the old .spec.
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https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building#Fedora>
Building under F27 fails because it needs "gwen3.gui-gtk3" but Fedora
27 doesn't have such a thing. I presume that that was added to
Gwenhyfar after the version in F27. (A Welsh name for a package
distributed from a German banking software site.)
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https://www.aquamaniac.de/sites/download/packages.php?package=01&show...
Next plan: try gnucash of F28 beta.