Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Question on Addresses and Not Null constraints

2008-05-22 Thread Jeff Kowalczyk
On Wed, 21 May 2008 19:00:40 -0700, Chris Travers wrote: > I suppose we could just drop the NOT NULL constraint from state... Is the only reason state is marked NOT NULL is to reference a tax table? If so, perhaps we should have a separate tax_zone, or table matching entity_id to any number of ta

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Question on Addresses and Not Null constraints

2008-05-22 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Chris Travers wrote: > One thing that is remarkably hard to model relationally is address > data. In particular different places have different semantics. Some > countries have mail codes while some do not. Some places it makes > sense to track states and provinces while in some countries this >

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Question on Addresses and Not Null constraints

2008-05-22 Thread Chris Travers
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:23 AM, Roderick A. Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since I'm just getting started with LedgerSMB (after years away from > SQL-Ledger) I'm not sure what the installation base is nor what is it > going to be. > > If there is a need to send /reliably/ via. a postal s

[Ledger-smb-devel] where to start -- what Linux distro?

2008-05-22 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I would like to try LedgerSMB for, well, a small business. I don't know what the line of least resistance is (I don't want to employ my usual tactic: looking for the line of greatest resistance). I would welcome advice. Linux distros that seem plausible: - CentOS 5.1 - Ubuntu 8.04 LTS - Fedora 9