Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] SL 2.8 to LedgerSMB 1.2

2010-03-17 Thread Luke
Very nice--thanks for this. It will help a lot. Luke On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Chris Travers wrote: > The first part was to move the defaults data over. > > alter table defaults add column setting_key text, value text; > alter table defaults add column setting_key text; > alter table defaults add co

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] SL 2.8 to LedgerSMB 1.2

2010-03-17 Thread Luke
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Chris Travers wrote: > The major ones are: > > 2) MUCH improved reconciliation, and plugin model for bank file > imports (programmer-defined). > > 3) Rich capabilities regarding customer/vendor storage, (more options > for contact info storage, multiple shipto's, etc) I kne

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] SL 2.8 to LedgerSMB 1.2

2010-03-17 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Armaghan Saqib wrote: > Chris Travers wrote: >> The goal here wasn't just to advertise the services but to provide a >> framework of how this was done for other consultants to use too.  A >> rising tide floats all boats.  Obviously this assumes you have a >> pretty

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] SL 2.8 to LedgerSMB 1.2

2010-03-17 Thread Armaghan Saqib
Chris Travers wrote: > The goal here wasn't just to advertise the services but to provide a > framework of how this was done for other consultants to use too. A > rising tide floats all boats. Obviously this assumes you have a > pretty good idea that LedgerSMB 1.2 will work for you. > Thanks C

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] SL 2.8 to LedgerSMB 1.2

2010-03-17 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Luke wrote: > I would not be interested in paying you to do it (well, I probably would, > if I had money to use for such a thing), but any tips you might have for > the process would be greatly appreciated--I still have years of historical > data in SQL-Ledger, tha

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] SL 2.8 to LedgerSMB 1.2

2010-03-17 Thread Luke
I would not be interested in paying you to do it (well, I probably would, if I had money to use for such a thing), but any tips you might have for the process would be greatly appreciated--I still have years of historical data in SQL-Ledger, that we are going to want out some day, probably next

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] ready to branch 1.3 off?

2010-03-17 Thread John Locke
+1 to everything Ed said. Using Jeff's repo is fine, and may be a good starting point. I have one, too, though the branches probably aren't that well organized, and I do need to add a post-update hook to update the master branch from svn trunk (there's an svn/trunk branch that is up to date). But

[Ledger-smb-devel] LedgerSMB 1.2.21 available for download

2010-03-17 Thread Chris Travers
Hi all; LedgerSMB 1.2.21 has been released. The complete changelog is as follows: Changelog for 1.2.21 * Corrected a number of templates with HTML issues (Luke) * AR/AP Aging Report fixed, ignores payment after report date (Chris T) * Minor documentation updates (Chris T) * Fixed bug saving SIC

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Another question re: 2.0

2010-03-17 Thread Adam Thompson
> I don't see the tarballs as going away either. Well, no. But CPAN is also a distribution mechanism for tarballs; from what I've seen (granted, I've never written a CPAN module) it looks like you can either target CPAN primarily and spin off tarballs from that, or structure your project so it

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Evaluating Catalyst and other frameworks

2010-03-17 Thread Chris Travers
Hi Alejandro: I decided to reply sooner so I don't forget again :-) On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: >> Absolutely.  What are your ideas here? >> > > Perhaps the p2ee is a bit too radical to port LSMB just like that, but > I am more than eager for you to take a look at wha

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Evaluating Catalyst and other frameworks

2010-03-17 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Chris Travers wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Ed W wrote: >>> On 09/03/2010 21:11, Chris Travers wrote: Hi all; I have spent some time looking at Catalyst to see what would be >>

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Another question re: 2.0

2010-03-17 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Adam Thompson wrote: >> From: Ian Goodacre [mailto:ian.gooda...@xtra.co.nz] >> >> Is there a problem with current distribution methods? > > Yes. > > Somewhere north of 80% of potential users will not install software if it > isn't available in either their distrib

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Evaluating Catalyst and other frameworks

2010-03-17 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Chris Travers wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Ed W wrote: >> On 09/03/2010 21:11, Chris Travers wrote: >>> Hi all; >>> >>> I have spent some time looking at Catalyst to see what would be >>> required to make LedgerSMB run according to current development

[Ledger-smb-devel] SL 2.8 to LedgerSMB 1.2

2010-03-17 Thread Chris Travers
Hi all; Late last night I completed a migration for a customer from SQL-Ledger 2.8 to LedgerSMB 1.2. It wasn't a tremendous amount of work (it took me around three hours and a fair bit of that was being out of practice with old pre-1.2 versions of LedgerSMB). In addition to offering the service t

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Another question re: 2.0

2010-03-17 Thread Adam Thompson
> From: Ian Goodacre [mailto:ian.gooda...@xtra.co.nz] > > Is there a problem with current distribution methods? Yes. Somewhere north of 80% of potential users will not install software if it isn't available in either their distribution's repository (ports tree, apt/yum/that-thing-SLES-uses, por

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Another question re: 2.0

2010-03-17 Thread Ian Goodacre
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 12:27 -0800, Chris Travers wrote: > What do folks think about moving to CPAN as a distribution mechanism > for 2.0 and perhaps only seeing Sourceforge as for bundle > distributions? I think CPAN works very well for distribution of Perl modules to be installed to the standard

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Evaluating Catalyst and other frameworks

2010-03-17 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Ed W wrote: > On 09/03/2010 21:11, Chris Travers wrote: >> Hi all; >> >> I have spent some time looking at Catalyst to see what would be >> required to make LedgerSMB run according to current development >> approaches (close to the db, etc) and the result isn't eas

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] ready to branch 1.3 off?

2010-03-17 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Ed W wrote: > On 14/03/2010 05:39, Adam Thompson wrote: >> I don't follow this logic.  SVN is perfectly capable of branching; >> merging and back-porting isn't as easy between branches as, say, git or >> bzr, but it looks like the codebases of 1.2, 1.3 and 2.0 will

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Encrypted bank account info

2010-03-17 Thread Ed W
> Chris said earlier that in the US, an account and routing number is enough > to initiate an ACH transfer out. > Yeah, I think the point is that in some countries the banking security varies and it's been noted that in the US the account number is sufficient that it can be mis-used to with

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Should we switch to a dcvs for 2.0?

2010-03-17 Thread Ed W
On 09/03/2010 19:37, Michael Richardson wrote: > >> "Chris" == Chris Travers writes: >> > Chris> As we move more to an addon-centric model, it seems to me we > Chris> have two choices: > > Chris> 1) We could recommend that addons get their own project sp

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] ready to branch 1.3 off?

2010-03-17 Thread Ed W
On 14/03/2010 05:39, Adam Thompson wrote: > I don't follow this logic. SVN is perfectly capable of branching; > merging and back-porting isn't as easy between branches as, say, git or > bzr, but it looks like the codebases of 1.2, 1.3 and 2.0 will be > sufficiently different that it would be highl

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Evaluating Catalyst and other frameworks

2010-03-17 Thread Ed W
On 09/03/2010 21:11, Chris Travers wrote: > Hi all; > > I have spent some time looking at Catalyst to see what would be > required to make LedgerSMB run according to current development > approaches (close to the db, etc) and the result isn't easy. > Basically, at a minimum, the following would nee

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Three Possible Bugs in 1.2.X

2010-03-17 Thread Luke
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Chris Travers wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Chris Travers wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:57 AM, David Godfrey wrote: Hi Luke I apologize in advance if I have misunderstood your need. As Chris has determined that a "proper" fix is not viable at this time, w