Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Tracking Customers

2007-01-25 Thread Chris Travers
On 1/25/07, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > One of the things we have decided to try and do for (likley) 1.3 is to > have some basic customer relationship management. I have been thinking > alot on this and have come up with some rough ideas on a model. To me CRM includes g

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Tracking Customers

2007-01-25 Thread William Hamilton
Joshua D. Drake wrote: >>> Joshua D. Drake >>> >> Would it be worth considering how SugarCRM or vtiger deal with >> relationships as these seem to be the more popular of the OSS CRMS and >> there have been numerous requests for integration tips over the years of SL. >> > Both are PHP based. Both

[Ledger-smb-devel] Light manufacturing moduels....

2007-01-25 Thread Jeff Gerritsen
I've been watching both email groups SL for years and LSMB since its inception. One item that keeps surfacing from time to time is the need for some type of MRP module that can interface with either SL or LSMB. I have over 11 years combined experience with manufacturing packages written on the

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Tracking Customers

2007-01-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
>> Joshua D. Drake >> > > Would it be worth considering how SugarCRM or vtiger deal with > relationships as these seem to be the more popular of the OSS CRMS and > there have been numerous requests for integration tips over the years of SL. > Both are PHP based. Both are ugly as all get out u

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Tracking Customers

2007-01-25 Thread William Hamilton
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hello, > > One of the things we have decided to try and do for (likley) 1.3 is to > have some basic customer relationship management. I have been thinking > alot on this and have come up with some rough ideas on a model. > > company: > +---

[Ledger-smb-devel] Tracking Customers

2007-01-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, One of the things we have decided to try and do for (likley) 1.3 is to have some basic customer relationship management. I have been thinking alot on this and have come up with some rough ideas on a model. company: +--+---

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Language wars...

2007-01-25 Thread Josh Berkus
Chris, > JMHO, of course, but so far everyone on the core team seems to agree. > Chris Travers To date, yes. The Pentabarf project has been doing some work on Rails to make it integrate with more "intelligent" databases (stored procedures, etc.) but the work is not complete. Also, since we al

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Language wars...

2007-01-25 Thread Chris Travers
Hi Ed; I think you misunderstand the problem. I think we all welcome the discussion, and this email is largely put together to help explain where we are coming from so that the position makes a bit more sense. It isn't that you can't do stored procedures via most ORM's but rather that there are

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Language wars...

2007-01-25 Thread Jason Rodrigues
On Thursday 25 January 2007 12:43, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > I was walking through the tutorial and everything looked fairly > reasonable until: > > # load from multiple namespaces. > __PACKAGE__->load_classes({ > MyAppDB => [qw/Book BookAuthor Author/] > }); > > 1; > > Which i

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Language wars...

2007-01-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Ed W wrote: >> I fully understand your theory on frameworks. I use Django for a lot of >> work. >> > > OK, well as long as you tried one, that's all really...! > > > *I* personally really dig the extra functionality that you get for free, > but I'm definitely not going to try and persuade a

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Language wars...

2007-01-25 Thread Ed W
> I fully understand your theory on frameworks. I use Django for a lot of > work. > OK, well as long as you tried one, that's all really...! *I* personally really dig the extra functionality that you get for free, but I'm definitely not going to try and persuade anyone to use one for this

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Language wars...

2007-01-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Ed W wrote: > Hi > >> We are moving to a 90% SP model. Meaning that all data logic is going to >> happen in stored procedures. ORMs, at least every one that I have seen >> have no easy way to deal with using SPs. >> > > Well, this is the only reason I keen harking on about the whole thing - >

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Language wars...

2007-01-25 Thread Ed W
Hi > We are moving to a 90% SP model. Meaning that all data logic is going to > happen in stored procedures. ORMs, at least every one that I have seen > have no easy way to deal with using SPs. > Well, this is the only reason I keen harking on about the whole thing - I believe that you are in

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Language wars...

2007-01-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Ed W wrote: >> I wasn't talking about the MVC model, I was talking about the ORM. The >> ORM is the problem here not the MVC model :) >> > > What do you perceive is the problem with an ORM in this instance? Lets > assume for a moment that we disregard very simplistic solutions which > crudel

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Language wars...

2007-01-25 Thread Ed W
> I wasn't talking about the MVC model, I was talking about the ORM. The > ORM is the problem here not the MVC model :) > What do you perceive is the problem with an ORM in this instance? Lets assume for a moment that we disregard very simplistic solutions which crudely map database rows to

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Language wars...

2007-01-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Ed W wrote: > Hi > >> You are correct, you don't have to use the ORM and you can break out of >> it. But then why use it at all? It is reasonably simple (especially the >> direction we are going) to just have a sane api that you don't have to >> break out of. >> > > Well, my point was that it'

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Language wars...

2007-01-25 Thread Ed W
Hi > You are correct, you don't have to use the ORM and you can break out of > it. But then why use it at all? It is reasonably simple (especially the > direction we are going) to just have a sane api that you don't have to > break out of. > Well, my point was that it's not really "breaking ou

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Language wars...

2007-01-25 Thread Ed W
Hi > We are aware of this. However, we basically discovered that our > design was basically a lightweight MVC anyway, and that a large and > complex framework like Catalyst would add limited value and a lot of > complexity. I suppose that as this develops, if there is a need to > reconsider, we