Recommendations on managing inventory

[Shocky]

On Friday 09 February 2007 12:39, Derek Atkins wrote:
...
> > Any general advice to get started? I'm guessing I'll have to get more
> > familiar
> > with the autoconf tools, beyond running the standard commands.
> >
> > Any pointers appreciated (but I already know to rtfm and google 8^).
>
> RTFM.
> README
> README.svn
> The Gnucash.org website.
> The Wiki...
>
> Quickly:
>   pull from SVN
>   ./autogen.sh
>   ./configure ... --prefix=/opt/gnucash
>   make
>   make install
>
> > Shocky

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.

Shocky
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