Recommendations on managing inventory

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Shocky <shocky1 at users.sourceforge.net>:

> Thanks. The README and the docs it pointed to had a lot more useful info than
> I expected.
>
> I've realized that there's far too much to learn here to be able to extend it
> with an inventory subsystem in the time I have available (which isn't all
> that surprising, considering how much Gnucash does). I'll stick to what I
> know for now and build something using Postgresql and a suitable front-end
> (maybe Python). Then I'll look at extending Gnucash later on (and in some
> smaller steps).
>
> I noticed that Mandriva has a gnucash-sql package (at the 2.0.1 release
> level), which is described as an experimental Postgresql back-end for
> Gnucash. Any idea just how experimental it is? Having the data in Posgresql
> would provide other, possibly more flexible, ways to do custom reporting, and
> might help with integrating the inventory data. But I'd hate to gamble my
> bookkeeping data on a back-end that might mangle or lose it.

Definitely do NOT gamble your data on the existing PG Backend!
For one thing, it doesn't support Business or SX features.
There's a development project underway to add GDA support,
but that's not going to make it into 2.2..

-derek

> Shocky

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