On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 14:54 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > Gavin Carr wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 12:28:16PM +1000, Jacinta Richardson wrote: > >> Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > >>> That sounds doable. What accounting package, if you don't mind? > >> We use gnucash, but SQL Ledger ( http://www.sql-ledger.org/ ) has been > >> getting > >> press. We were toying with the idea of moving over, but we haven't yet. > > > > I'm a SQL Ledger user too, but there's been an interesting fork in the > > project in the last month to six weeks, due to the perceived lack of > > openness and responsiveness of SQL Ledger's author. So you might want > > to check out http://www.ledgersmb.org/ as well if you're considering > > moving. > > This is both an interesting and concerning twist that I was not aware > of. Do you have any further info other than the link? >
There was a lot of gnashing of teeth about a perceived security hole in SQL-Ledger. Two guys posted notice of the hole but the author did not appear to do anything about it, so a couple of weeks ago they decided to write their own fix and fork. The author of SQL-Ledger basically writes the entire package on his own under GPL and sells support and documentation to make money. He is very active developing SQL-Ledger, but I have to say that he has very poor human communication skills. It will be very interesting to see if the fork has legs. So far I'm sticking to the SQL-Ledger version, but there is some very interesting chatter on the ledgersmb mailing list, so it will be a space worth watching. I guess it's a classic GPL fork situation. > > > > > Cheers, > > Gavin > > > > -- > Howard. > LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://lannetlinux.com> > When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; > When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. > -- > Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
