Inventory and payroll

[Dave Peticolas]

Conrad Canterford writes:
> 
> So,
> - the stock account type is a type of inventory.
> - it performs its function adequatly (I believe) for simple share
> holdings.
> - but it does not contain the details required for a full inventory
> control system.
> Which brings me back to my original point. I think the inventory control
> stuff should be a seperate (but fully integrated) application. I might
> be able to be convinced that it can be sensibly done as a scheme module,
> but it will require some more convincing yet... :-)

I have to agree with Robert Merkel's point that a "separate but fully
integrated" application doesn't make much sense to me. How exactly is
that different from a module with a well-defined API? Why wouldn't we
want to include such a module (or SBFIA :)) with gnucash proper?

dave