kmymoney 5 frameworks

[timothy]

Yes that is what I want to do. 

Do you have any preference for Mint, Debian or Ubuntu?
I can install Debian testing (stretch) if that helps.

Regards
Timothy


On Wed, 2016-11-16 at 09:28 +0000, aga wrote:
> On 16/11/16 08:33, timothy wrote:
> > Thanks Christian for your response. 
> > 
> > Yes I was wondering what would be required to compile KMyMoney 5 with
> > dependencies on my setup of LMDE2 Betsy and Debian 8.6. However if as
> > you say there is many a mile to go before a release, I am probably
> > jumping the gun.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Timothy
> 
> It might depend on what your intended use is.  It's not ready for
> production, I would say, but if you just want to get it built and then
> do some testing, then that could be OK, at your risk though.
> 
> I had some trouble getting it built, with various distros, as their
> revisions caused problems, but Kubuntu 16.10 was better.  I just had to
> find a few dependency files to build.
> 
> Allan
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 18:20 +0100, Christian David wrote:
> >> Hi Timothy,
> >>
> >> certainly KMyMoney 5 will not only use tier 1 libraries, why should it? 
> >> However, it does not depend on the plasma desktop. Btw: KMyMoney depends on 
> >> some libraries which are not part of KF5 (or previously the kdelibs) at all.
> >>
> >> KMyMoney should be fine in a bundle like snap, appimage, docker or any other 
> >> kind of package. The problem is that we have to find someone to do the work.
> >>
> >> I do not get the last question. Do you mean; will KMyMoney 5 work with kdelibs 
> >> 4? If so, the answer is definitely no. We want to use the cool new features 
> >> (and they are not compatible)!
> >>
> >> What do you mean by “effort needed to switch”? Do you want to compile it 
> >> yourself with all dependencies? Loading a previous .kmy file will work just 
> >> like before. If the user interface is not changed, the user will not even 
> >> notice that he is using another version.
> >>
> >> Please note that KMyMoney 5 is far from being ready, so major changes can be 
> >> expected. A release will take (a lot) more time.
> >>
> >> Greetings
> >> Christian
> >>
> >>> timothy <timboyle at afrihost.co.za> hat am 8. November 2016 um 08:15 
> >> geschrieben:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> Does the new kmymoney 5 frameworks use Tier 1 libraries only, or also
> >>> higher order libraries as well? Tier 1 libraries as I understand have no
> >>> dependencies other than system libraries and Qt itself.
> >>>
> >>> Would kmymoney 5 installation on a non KDE linux system such as Mint or
> >>> LMDE2 require one to use the Plasma desktop or could it also be run
> >>> under MATE say?
> >>>
> >>> Is there any chance of kmymoney 5 being bundled similar to a snap
> >>> package in Ubuntu which contains all the dependencies required for that
> >>> application?
> >>>
> >>> Just wondering how much effort or change will be required to switch. Or
> >>> will the version on Development Platform 4 still be supported?
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>> Timothy
> >>>
> >