Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] future of LedgerSMB

2007-01-21 Thread Chris Travers
On 1/21/07, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok, to clarify-- allowing third party add-ons, providing some > > directional support, etc. happens today. However, these are somewhat > > limited in scope by the factors described above. I would expect this > > And then break compatibi

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] future of LedgerSMB

2007-01-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Chris Travers wrote: > We have something to gain. > > If we rewrite the entire application at once, I am quite afraid it > will never be completed simply because it is such a big task. > Rewriting in Perl gives us the ability to have a useful application > while we are working on it. I am not rea

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] future of LedgerSMB

2007-01-21 Thread Chris Travers
We have something to gain. If we rewrite the entire application at once, I am quite afraid it will never be completed simply because it is such a big task. Rewriting in Perl gives us the ability to have a useful application while we are working on it. I am sure after 2.0, there may be some cause

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] future of LedgerSMB

2007-01-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Josh Berkus wrote: > Chris, > >> The core application is probably going to remain in Perl for the >> foreseable future and probably far longer. However, we are working on >> adding hooks so that additional functionality could be added in other >> languages. Rewriting the entire application in Py

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] future of LedgerSMB

2007-01-21 Thread Chris Travers
Just a few thoughts regarding the possibility of add-ons. THese are just my opinions and no guarantee that we will go this way, and I reserve the right to change my mind after discussions wiht the community and other core members I would really like to see four stable areas for integration:

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] future of LedgerSMB

2007-01-21 Thread Seneca Cunningham
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 02:41:58PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > Seneca, > > > There is a GL table, it's just that hardly anything uses it, prefering > > to add up the other tables and storing its values in the acc_trans > > table. One of my test instances has an entry in it from when I told the >

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] future of LedgerSMB

2007-01-21 Thread Josh Berkus
Seneca, > There is a GL table, it's just that hardly anything uses it, prefering > to add up the other tables and storing its values in the acc_trans > table. One of my test instances has an entry in it from when I told the > system that it was the year end. Right. In a standard accounting data

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] future of LedgerSMB

2007-01-21 Thread Seneca Cunningham
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 02:01:25PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > In the realm of general structure, I'm uncomfortable with the fact that SMB > does not have a GL *table*. While there's nothing innaccurate with doing the > P&L on the fly by adding up AR and AP, it's both inefficient and does not >

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] future of LedgerSMB

2007-01-21 Thread Josh Berkus
Chris, > The core application is probably going to remain in Perl for the > foreseable future and probably far longer.  However, we are working on > adding hooks so that additional functionality could be added in other > languages.  Rewriting the entire application in Python seems both > unnecessa

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] future of LedgerSMB

2007-01-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Ed W wrote: > Chris Travers wrote: >> Well, here is my sense (not that I am not sure there is a 100% firm >> concensus). >> >> The core application is probably going to remain in Perl for the >> foreseable future and probably far longer. However, we are working on >> adding hooks so that addition

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] future of LedgerSMB

2007-01-21 Thread Ed W
Chris Travers wrote: > Well, here is my sense (not that I am not sure there is a 100% firm > concensus). > > The core application is probably going to remain in Perl for the > foreseable future and probably far longer. However, we are working on > adding hooks so that additional functionality cou