Re: Upcoming 2.0 of LedgerSMB

[Luke <..hidden..>]

On Sat, 24 Jul 2010, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> 2.0 of LedgerSMB is going to branch soon. The primary goal of 2.0 is to

Is there any intent to do a final release of 1.3, or will it continue to 
be worked on concurrently?

> eliminate all legacy code from our SQL-Ledger heritage. However, there
> are other goals that others may have that I would like to start a
> discussion on.

Presumably, Chris's modularization model will be preserved?

> My Primary goals are:
>
> I firmly believe we need to eliminate Latex or at least not make it a
> requirement and move to more modern technologies to generate invoices.

Probably agreed.  What did you have in mind as potential replacements?

> I would like to create a new template for presentation. The old template
> is fine for some folks but pretty matters and I want to eliminate frames
> and push to a proper ajax style interface. (again optional)

I am one who routinely fights for non-js interfaces to be preserved.  I 
work in enough odd platforms, and support users who also do, that having 
graceful degradation is a 100%, app becomes useless without it, 
requirement.
By the same token, of course, for standard browsers, a much more friendly 
UI would be welcome.

I would go as far as saying that the web interface should also be modular 
to permit this.  Of course, that would require that no key functions be 
implemented *only* in the UI.

 > Lastly, for 2.0 we are moving to Git. We have already created 
the > repository and will slowly begin to populate over the coming months.

Glad that's finally happening!

Luke