Hi, I'm moving a conversation I started with Cédric to the mailing list:
On 10/08/11 23:59 +0200, Albert Cervera i Areny wrote:
> Hi Cédric,
> I'm moving the conversation to private e-mail because I don't think
codereview
> is the best place to discuss something like this.
I would prefer to have it on mailing list.
> First of all, let me say that for me it's perfectly ok to implement that
with
> a python expression and I'm ok with it. At the same time, however, I'm a bit
> surprised that you expect end users to use those things. Maybe it's not a
> problem for current Tryton audience but it certainly is for many of the
users
> I meet daily.
I don't think it is too complicate to ask to the user to enter something like:
months=2, days=15, day=-1
As soon as there is a good help message and/or a documentation (that could
link to the dateutil one).
> So my question is not so much about this feature but more on the line of
what
> is the target of Tryton, I think. At the same time the feature serves as a
> good example. Do you expect end users (in this case the accounting manager)
to
> write python expressions, for example?
Why not in some cases it is the more generic and powerful way.
> Do you think that Tryton should be more
> a framework for building enterprise applications and thus it is the
> responsability of the one creating the "final" application to take care of
> this?
For sure we always thought that Tryton is a framework and not an
out-of-the-box application. But it is not in the same way as you think, it is
because we thought that it is not possible to match every needs so we build in
Tryton the basic concept that will be altered for the specific usage of a
company.
We care about the user interface and try to make it simple but not simplistic.
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