Hi Mehul. Thanks a lot dude for reporting this.
By the way GNUKhata is not ment for home users actually, although we will make a painless setup process once the deb and rpm packages are ready. So home users should find it easy too. However our priority *is* business use including but not limited to commertial enterprises with large to medium volume of data and small non-commertial setups like NGOs etc who don't have a huge network but have a good dea of data to handle and do generate a lot of vouchers etc. So your point of "why we are worried of installation ..." is valid and I have mentioned that point in my previous emails too. You have got the point right in that context. The enterprise = deployment and deployment = smart personels to instal software. responses to your numberd points follow. On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 23:54 +0530, Mehul Ved wrote:
- Who's the intended audience of gnukhata? Is it the businesses or home users?
If it is business then why are we so worried about there being incompetent people to install and manage the application. If it is then they have another bigger problem to solve before they worry about what accounting package to use. If it is the home user, then why are we so worried of scalability at this point as compared to features? No home user is going to generate huge data, they will care about features.
Read my comments above this list of points, That was an important aspect so I have answered it before any thing.
- The wiki mentions of #gnukhata channel on irc.freenode.net, I don't
see anybody on that channel, nor is it even registered. Is it the right channel?
It is the right channel, although for the last week or so, we have not hanged out much over there due to out deadlines on GNUKhata. The good thing is that GNUKhata right now has helthy funding and people are strict on their deadlines. the down side is that developers on the team (except yours truely and anusha ) are not really going out to the public.
- There are a couple of typos in the documentation. Whom do I report it to?
GNUKhata Mailing list gnu-khata@googlegroups.com which will soon shift to the main server. Right now though, you can join this mailing list and report any thing there. People are very responsive on that mailing list.
- While installing, even when the installation is failing I see the
following line "Tables and default data are added"
Yes, because the installation script was not written for the real production use. We are taken the decision that we will finally put eveyr thing in the deb package and so right now I am personally re-writing those scripts. The sript will be updated to the svn repo in a day or two.
- Installation seems to go fine but I am ending up with following
error when starting the client application. I have python 2.5.2 -----xxxxx----- : No such file or directory ./main.py: line 28: syntax error near unexpected token `'2.0'' ./main.py: line 28: `pygtk.require('2.0')' -----xxxxx----- But, typing the same in python interpreter seems to return no error -----xxxxx----- python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jun 26 2008, 19:45:40) [GCC 4.2.3 (Gentoo 4.2.3 p1.0)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import pygtk pygtk.require('2.0')
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Thanks a million for this report. We will have the bug tracking system up by tomorrow evening as per the commitment of our server admin in Banglore. Thanks to the deeproot team, we have so far got very good server and it is generaly up in most cases.
Will report on more once I get started with actual application.
Please do. I would request you to join the mailing list and report bugs there. And you are also welcome to visit our offfice to get some personal insight and a live demo.
happy hacking. Krishnakant.
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