Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

From: Oliver Elphick (olly_at_lfix.co.uk)
Date: 08/03/04

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    To: bob parker <bob_parker@ozonline.com.au>
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:51:55 +0100

    On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 18:09, bob parker wrote:
    > > > Any chance that you will package it? Or let someone else do so? I'm not
    > > > pleased with sql-ledger either, but I like the alternatives even less.
    > >
    > > Once it is written, yes. If you would like to list features you would
    > > like to see, that could be helpful. There really needs to be a good
    > > free accounting package, but it has to cope with all kinds of things to
    > > be a good internationalised package, and I probably haven't even
    > > imagined some of them.

    > Are we talking about a web page interface here? Say Pg + Php?
    > If so I have the beginnings of a payroll module I could contribute.
    > It's built to ato rules of PAYE for dotAU but maybe there's enough in common
    > to suit other places.

    I'm not all that keen on web interfaces; as far as I can see, from my
    limited and reluctant experience of writing them, the programming
    languages are poor and debugging is a nightmare. I was thinking on the
    lines of glade + Python or Eiffel. However the underlying database
    structure should be the same, and I would insist on putting all the
    consistency rules into the database (triggers, foreign keys, etc.) so
    you could possibly have two different interfaces to the same database. 

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