A Dijous, 11 d'agost de 2011 11:39:31, Albert Cervera i Areny va escriure: > 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.
Done ;-) > > 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). Well, thinking of several of our customers I'd say some of them would be calling quite frequently if they had something like this. However, we (NaN or whoever is interested) can create a new module to simplify the interface for those customers and most frequent Spanish market needs. > > 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 > > 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. Ok. Thanks. -- Albert Cervera i Areny http://www.NaN-tic.com Tel: +34 93 553 18 03 http://twitter.com/albertnan http://www.nan-tic.com/blog -- [email protected] mailing list
