Hi Gnucash-people
I witnessed a talk by Linas at the NYLUG meeting this past Wednesday, and there was
some talk about using PostgreSQL as a back-end storage for GNUCash.
Linas said that one of the major obstacles would be the support issue -- stepping
people through installing and setting up PostgreSQL, not to speak of maintaining it.
We at ArsDigta/OpenACS (arsdigita.com, openacs.org) are in a similar situation. We're
about to get our product, ACS, included on RedHat and a number of other distros, but
we depend on a running PostgreSQL installation. So far, we've planned on installing
and setting up PostgreSQL ourselves, with some RPM and shell script magic.
But Linas' talk sparked this idea: Wouldn't it be a lot more clever if we could
convince the distros to make a running, configured PostgreSQL installation part of the
default install, for the benefit of all? Application developers could then start
relying on a working PostgreSQL installation, so they could concentrate on adding
value instead.
We're already trying to use our influence to make this happen, but the more the
merrier.
I'd like to hear how interested you would be in this, if we could make it happen.
Thanks,
/Lars
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