On Tuesday 12 August 2003 04:46, David Durst wrote: > I read your article on that I had found through slashdot. > > Interesting enough I find myself in a very similar position as yourself, > that is having a project that deals with Account and Business and > finding that there is a lack of developers to support the size of the > project. By far GNU Cash is more developed than my project but there is > another similar project to mine that you may have heard of, Compiere ERP > + CRM. > > Now before I get a rant about Compiere (Don't know if you have had any > experience with it or not) > > The idea had dawned on me that combining projects mine, yours, compiere > is probably not the best idea. But we can support each other in away. > > You had mentioned that there is an accounting back end to GNU Cash that > lack RPC etc.. etc.. wel maybe RPC is not the best way to go because it > takes then some specific languages to use it, hard to debug etc.. etc.. > once again you would only be raising the ramp up time for people to > contribute. > > Heres the idea we discuss with Compiere Project leads, You and I how a > standardized XML protocol would work for a back end. > > If there is a standardized protocol we can all develop using it. now > Allowing our front end applications to use any back end it choses. > > It also brings in a interesting scenario of multiple segments of a > company to use different back ends depending on their specific needs and > having these backend capable of communicating easily. > > Tell me if you think there maybe any merit to my idea. > Or you can just tell me to jump in a lake. > > BTW the URL to my project is: > http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/obserpcrm
Well, one thing we could do is chat OFX 2.0. It's XML based, very well documented, a DTD is available, and was designed to request, send and modify financial data on a remote system through HTTP. It's also an industry standard. Writing an OFX server for gnucash is doable, but will require a considerable amount of time, especially on my part as libofx isn't there yet. But building on to direct connect support, I really think it's doable. Now if only I could find someone to pay me to work full time on libofx. I'm sure a generic library that can do communication using the OFX protocol between two apps as well as import and export in most financial formats has a lot of value to many parties. -- Benoit Grégoire http://step.polymtl.ca/~bock/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
