l-anePOS and gnuCash

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

The Postgres support in gnucash needs a lot of work, and we're
in the middle of re-writing the SQL support in general.  Making
the two work together is going to depend on a lot of things,
like what tables are being used and what level of integration
you really want/need.  I find it unlikely that this POS system
will feed data into the gnucash tables..  And indeed I would
recommend AGAINST doing that.

Most likely you'd have two databases in PG, one for gnucash and one
for the POS system, and you'd have to write some code to migrate
across.  No, I'm not offering to do this ;)

-derek

David J Patrick <davidjpatrick at sympatico.ca> writes:

> I have been looking for an integrated POS system, that will run on
> linux, and could work with gnucash. After a long search, I found
> nothing. I did, however, find one nice-looking, open source, POS system
> called l-anePOS
> http://l-ane.sourceforge.net/
> For some time I badgered the author, Jason Burrell, asking how it might
> be made to work with gnucash. His reply was that a) they used a
> different back-end, and b) he had plans to develop his own back-end. In
> a recent communicatio he stated:
>
> The front-office (register) part of the program is stable and usable;
> Unfortunately, the back-office (reports, management tools) are
> non-existent to
> rough. For people willing to write a few reports of their own, the
> system works
> well. For everyone else, quite a bit of additional work is needed.
> Because of
> these weak areas, I recommend people use L'anePOS as a toolkit to build
> a
> fuller solution rather than a boxed solution.
>
> Now, l-anePOS uses postgreSQL as it's database, and I have seen a lot of
> discussion regarding postgreSQL integration with gnucash. 
> Is it a stretch to think that these two could be made to work together
> and that a POS front-end to gnucash would be a boon ?
>
> thanks for thinking about it,
> djp
>
> PS. I would consider paying a developer to make this work, and then GPL
> the result. thanks.
>
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