Re: Post 1.4.0 projects

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Philip Rhoades <..hidden..> wrote:

Chris,

On 2014-09-11 01:13, Chris Travers wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Pongrácz István
> <..hidden..> wrote:
>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> Sounds good.
>>
>> I am interesting about the 2nd point. If you will have same
>> specific details, please let me know. Thanks.
>
> My plan is to write an app on Dancer which provides upgrade, rebuild,
> and management functions similar to the current setup.pl [4] but:
>
> 1. Would support multiple major versions of LedgerSMB (1.3, 1.4, etc)
> 2. Provide a web services interface for statistics, version, user
> info, etc. for LSMB
> 3. Provide backup and restore facilities as well.
>
> The plan is to build this as a console that would be useful in an
> environment with many more dbs than the average small installation,
> and would be automation-friendly. It would also be a way to get
> familiar with Dancer and what is needed to move parts of our codebase
> onto that framework.

Sounds pretty cool but also sounds like a lot of work?

I actually don't think it will be too bad. Basically I think it will require:

1. Refactoring and slightly expanding the business logic we already have.

2. Broadening things slightly to support multiple versions. At least 1.3-1.5 are unlikely to require different Perl code to save a user. If we change this functionality we can decide what to do about it.

3. Then we get to write the dancer app. Since the Perl modules will do the heavy lifting, I don't expect this to be too bad.

Originally I planned 1-2 weeks to finish this. My plan is to release it as a separate app called something like App::LedgerSMB::Admin on CPAN.

Regards,

Phil.

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