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web-based accounting

Posted May 10, 2007 15:59 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's next project by davidw
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's next project

"why not do a web-based system that, unlike Compiere or OFBiz, is focused solely on
accounting."

I believe that's what SQL-Ledger and its offshoots are.

My prediction, having scanned this scene a while back, is that LedgerSMB will come out
on top in this list, but still not be quite good enough. I hope I'm wrong on that last part.

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web-based accounting

Posted May 10, 2007 17:00 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

My prediction, having scanned this scene a while back, is that LedgerSMB will come out on top in this list [snip]

My dart landed in the same circle.

I will be following this series with great interest, as I find myself in a very similar situation. The real fun begins when one tries to export data from QB in a way that doesn't require some error-prone manual procedure.

web-based accounting

Posted May 31, 2007 21:27 UTC (Thu) by einhverfr (guest, #44407) [Link]

LedgerSMB 1.2.x has been a very painful branch (sort of like Apache 2.0.x). This was largely due to the fact that we started to refactor code from a codebase that was so utterly complex that nobody understands it properly. Also, many of the bugs we have corrected have also shown up in mainline SQL-Ledger branch, so....

My suggestion is to look towards LSMB 1.3 (current svn /trunk) to see where we are going with that. The releases will only get better as we get the codebase under some sort of sane and cunderstandable code structure. This will allow for a great deal more automated testing and more.