Re: Choosing which Ledger to use?

[Luke <..hidden..>]

You may want to be on the ledger-smb-devel list.

I can't address your particular question--I am not a PERL programmer for 
the most part (I can do it when I really have to, but my preferred language 
is PHP).

However, I can address the various projects issue.

SQL-Ledger was started by, and was mainly developed by, one guy, at one 
company.  He was/is not very welcoming of community involvement.

I have used the original SQL-Ledger, and now use LedgerSMB.

I think LedgerSMB has a much brighter future, and has greater potential to 
continue its life for the long term.  It started out being an open 
project, rather different than the original, and has addressed a great 
many of the security holes and significant problems which the original 
developer of SQL-Ledger refused to acknowledge or work on.

The version 2 of LedgerSMB that is in the planning stages, has a lot of 
great ideas behind it, and could certainly benefit from professional PERL 
programmers.

Luke


 On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Lyle wrote:

> Hi All,
>   I'm a full time Perl developer, looking to use a Perl based accounting
> package so I can jump into the code if I have issues. SQL Ledger and
> LedgerSMB seem to be the only options. I read some old posts in 2002 of
> people warning that ledger doesn't use strict, etc. I was quite surprised to
> see that this is still the case in 2011. I assume the developers are more
> accountants than Perl programmers?
>   Which is the better platform now, SQL Ledger or LedgerSMB, I understand
> the fork was some time ago and they are supposed to now be quite different.
>
> Whichever I choose I'll likely end up making contributions to the code in
> the form of patches, new functionality, guides or scripts to aid with
> updates/imports, etc. So whichever way I go, you'd probably want me on board
> :)
>
>
> Lyle