On 12/5/06, Jeff Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not to troll, but: > > Is LedgerSMB planning to incorporate the new features SQL-Ledger-2.7 beta, > scheduled for release mid December 2006?
Seems like SQL-Ledger 2.8 has been postponed (2.7 is the beta for 2.8). There is no longer any date listed on the SQL-Ledger.com site and the number of features promised is now double the number of features listed in the beta. So I don't know. Going just by the current iinfo on SQL-Ledger.com, I would expect 2.8 to be released sometime Mid-December 2007 unless the feature list is drastically shortened... However, I think the current thought is that we want to maintain a migration path from SQL-Ledger for at least the next 12-18 months. So the short answer is "yes." However, we will probably do the features differently. Our codebases are diverging rapidly. > > This is more or less the motivation for my previous question about > diff-minimzation. But that's just the technical work of incorporating the > changes. Don't bother trying to maintain diffs across the two forks. We are interested in building a new accounting/ERP app, not simply being SQL-Ledger+bigfixes and new features... There are a lot of areas where the codebases are already somewhat far apart and the distance is going to get greater. > > My underlying question is whether ledger-smb is to be a cold-turkey fork, or > if > applicable changesets will migrate between the two codebases as a matter of > policy/copyright? It isn't a matter of policy or copyright. Initially I expected we could keep changes going back and forth. However, we have had to make a number of deep changes to the codebase in 1.2 that were unexpected, and the more we scratch, the more we discover that we are going to have to do a lot of re-engineering of the software. In the end we expect to get something that is a lot more maintainable than what we have now, however. Hope this helps, Chris Travers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
