On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 14:45 +0530, Sanjay B wrote:
Was far easier than a lot of other stuff I've been trying to install over the past week, heh;) - just a couple typos which may confuse someone - you say do 'sudo postgres' in ubuntu to su into postgres user when of course that should be 'sudo su postgres', and on the last line you say run main.py to start the client - that should probably be updated to say run start.py (although the directory structure makes that pretty evident). Thanks will update that.
A bit curious as to what formats this exports to, as well as curious about the nature of the server / client architecture . Is the 'api' documented somewhere? A web-app interface to this seems like a natural next-step, would be cool. The vouchers, including sales and purchase bills and user-defined vouchers all are created in pdf and so are easy to email and print it from a machine where the software is not running.
The ledgers and tryal balance comes in ods format (spreadsheets being read-only ). You are right we have almost come on the verge of starting the web app based client.
Actually our approach is a thin client and all that the client will do is to make calls o the published API on the xmlrpc server layer which has to core logic. So we are following the Pure MVC structure. As a result the core of GNUKhata is nothing but a service which provides the core API which can be used from any programming language which can do rpc (and almost every language does). So writing a QT based client, or a web application that renders the forms and the data is easy because all that you do is make calls to the server side API which has the core logic ready made for you.
Sounds great - was just curious if it's possible to access documentation for this API / if that will be available soon ?
Actually I am already working on the API along with Anusha, the project coordinator. Infact kenneth's request for the password patch is also being worked upon although we have been after the hackers to sort out the "miner " bugs which you and others pointed about the UI. Will update the wiki on gnukhata.gnulinux.in soon with both the user manual and the API docs.
But overall the interface seems clean and usable, going to run it by our accountant and see if I can convince him to switch from Tally, but am guessing its not so simple. ( is there any ideas about data imports from tally .. ? )
We can import csv and so perhaps tally data can be imported?
Good job though, congratulations, and hope you can release soon.
Keep thanks a lot. Keep posting. By the way your feedback positive or negative will be very valuable for us. why don't you join our mailing list at gnu-khata@googlegroups.com
Doing that - probably too many mails on this on this list already ;-)
happy hacking:), Sanjay
Thanks for understand, else along with me many people will be flamed for fludding this list with emails which ar supposed to be on some other mailing list :)
happy hacking. Krishnakant.