Re: future of LedgerSMB

["Joshua D. Drake" <..hidden..>]

Ed W wrote:
> Chris Travers wrote:
>> Well, here is my sense (not that I am not sure there is a 100% firm concensus).
>>
>> The core application is probably going to remain in Perl for the
>> foreseable future and probably far longer.  However, we are working on
>> adding hooks so that additional functionality could be added in other
>> languages.  Rewriting the entire application in Python seems both
>> unnecessary and time consuming, but that doesn't mean that Python
>> add-on's cannot be supported.
>>   
> 
> 
> I think that sounds very sensible.  For example Ruby on rails floats my 
> boat, but the main thing here is the style of coding, not really the 
> language itself.
> 
>  From a crossplatform point of view I would have thought that Perl was 
> actually about the best supported tool out there...?

No actually Python or Java is going to give us the best capability there.

  I like the idea of
> a more MVC architecture, (such as catalyst or whatever the perl 
> equivalent is called?).  However, it's just a coding style issue
>

MVC doesn't require a toolkit :).


> Have a look at the new Rails 1.2 REST features, I think this is a very 
> interesting approach to allow close integration with other languages and 
> tools.  The intent is that you can hook web applications together...
> 

I guarantee you we won't do rails. Rails has a dependency that enforces
bad database design, basically the requirement that a primary key be
artificial.


> It would be quite cool to be able to use something like mod_perl 
> though.  I don't have a speed problem per-se with sql-ledger, but it 
> would be nice to make it just a tad more snappy.  At the moment it's 
> just got a hint of lag each time you click something which does make it 
> feel very much like a web app and not a decent front end application.
>

I agree from a performance standpoint that it would be nice to have
mod_* something capability.

Joshua D. Drake



> It's really interesting to see the speed of development right now
> 
> Good luck all!
> 
> Ed W
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