Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Move to git?

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Travers
Just a few brief notes rather than going back and forth in arguments. I may respond with details on what I am thinking in responses to posts later but I don't want to get dragged down into those. Rather I want to discuss current considerations. First, I think that everyone would agree that good

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Case for using a web framework, eg Mojolicious

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Travers
First, before I go into this, setting some expectations. I don't think "moving to a web framework" is the right way to look at LedgerSMB's direction. This way of framing things presupposes that LedgerSMB will always be primarily a web app, and I don't think that's a good idea. We already have us

[Ledger-smb-devel] hacking on scripts/setup.pl this weekend

2012-09-03 Thread Hugh Esco
I want to do some work with the API, but first I have to complete an upgrade of my own company's books from 1.2 to 1.3. I've been working my way through the scripts/setup.pl. I already have a patch to automate the resolution of duplicate keys which previously required user intervention. I

[Ledger-smb-devel] Some trouble setting up a test 1.3.22 installation... "no workflow script specified"

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Calef
Hello, and congratulations to all on the great work that seems to have been getting done here while I've been otherwise occupied! At long last, I finally sat down yesterday and started wrapping my brain around porting all of our work to v1.3, but got bogged down in the initial setup of a stock bu

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Move to git?

2012-09-03 Thread Michael Richardson
> "Chris" == Chris Travers writes: Chris> doesn't offer the basic guarantees of a revision control Chris> system by default. For example it is possible to overwrite Chris> past changes/revisions using git. Of course you can build a I think you are mistaken. You can rewrite hist

[Ledger-smb-devel] Case for using a web framework, eg Mojolicious

2012-09-03 Thread Ed W
Hi, I have some experience of using the perl web framework Mojolicious and whilst there are a number of very nice web frameworks, I would like to suggest the use of Mojolicious for LSMB. I think you can gain a very good working knowledge of the framework if you watch the first couple of videos:

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Move to git?

2012-09-03 Thread Ed W
Hi Folks > I have been using git for a few sub-projects, like the PHP classes as > an excuse to learn it. I can see why some people like git. It does > some things quite well. Interesting that you didn't already take the plunge and switch if you already tried it? Just as a datapoint, for

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Move to git?

2012-09-03 Thread Ed W
Hi > Actually, I like that it didn't for several reasons: > > * I do most of my development on Windows or from Windows. Git > integrates a lot less well with it than TortoiseSVN does for Subversion > * While I'm very much at ease with the svn command line client, I'd > have to learn a new tool