On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Peter Hansen wrote:
Andreas Pauley wrote:My company has given me a rather cool project:
I have to provide them with an open-source python-based point-of-sale / cash register system that can integrate with their existing ERP backend.
Do you have information about the interface to the ERP back end? It could be anything just about anything...
See my reply to Cameron.
The project will include development to ensure that the features they require are included in the open-source POS system.
I read that as "will include automated acceptance tests", but perhaps you meant something else?
Actually I just mean that I'm not looking for a 100% feature-fit, if I get a 70% fit I'll jump in and develop the other 30%.
Can you recommend anything that I can use?
There's a good chance you'll need to use PySerial, if the cash registers are connected via RS-232, but beyond that there's not much to say without more info. I believe I heard somebody talking about a Python POS system before in this newsgroup, but I'm not sure: check the archives?
Thanks, I'll keep PySerial in mind. Up to now I've googled a bit, and looked at Sourceforge projects. (I also did a search on the 51664 messages in my local Python-list folder)
At the moment I found a POS in GNU Enterprise, a project named "custom" and another project named "Auto Auction".
I'm not sure what the features of each system are, I'm busy checking them out one by one.
Then there's also 3 or 4 Python systems which haven't released any files yet.
Currently I'm evaluating GNU Enterprise.
Regards, Andreas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
