From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 9 15:54:04 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48E04BD2 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2014 15:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from winston.madpilot.net (winston.madpilot.net [78.47.75.155]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F359F2531 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2014 15:54:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from winston.madpilot.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3gnJsw1pdJzFTCT; Mon, 9 Jun 2014 17:53:56 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=madpilot.net; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:content-type:in-reply-to :references:subject:subject:mime-version:user-agent:from:from :date:date:message-id:received:received; s=mail; t=1402329234; x=1404143635; bh=g0orlYSDEObwuptTXJyOjIg12hpSPa+VVHRVjHqWzfQ=; b= Dkj+TkIYQD5TBC5ONzhKQ7VtyFgJ5/Gb0Xe83shiHT2v6co6sI/pE1OGHfBbe9YD CQoeNSa3CB/pvyl5ozhBgXoMiHDUE1l76jCGvnyLXz3cIA1TE5DJdwvGK9YqpNpT cYCQjtjyt5jOATPTo+DDi9YNZA00/OZYpqnBQKWkqHE= Received: from winston.madpilot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by winston.madpilot.net (winston.madpilot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1CTsoH2AlC_G; Mon, 9 Jun 2014 17:53:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from marvin.madpilot.net (micro.madpilot.net [88.149.173.206]) by winston.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Mon, 9 Jun 2014 17:53:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <5395D891.9080406@madpilot.net> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:53:53 +0200 From: Guido Falsi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Wagner , gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: finance/gnucash References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 15:54:04 -0000 On 06/09/14 04:03, Michael Wagner wrote: > I am very new to freeBSD, and I have a couple of questions. > > I noticed that the two things that intrigued me about gnucahs are > apparently turned off in the freeBSD port of gnucash - though it's posiible > that they are jsut turned off in PC-BSD version of the freeBSD port: > > 1) database support (ie, storing gnucash info in PostGres, etc). > 2) OFX file support. > > Is this a matter of proprietary code and/or open source issues, or lack of > interest? These two features are available as port options in the FreeBSD ports collection, but are turned off by default. This means that the official binary packages don't have those compiled in. If PC-BSD makes it's package with default options ports then these are not going to be available in PC-BSD either. Why they are turned off I think is up for guessing. Since usually we try to keep dependencies at a minimum and those options add dependencies that could be the reason. No OSS or license issues, nor really lack of interest, it simply looked like a sensible default. You can try championing for changing the defaults. -- Guido Falsi