Re: [CK-Ledger-users] SQL-Ledger Data

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Hi, Andrea,

Thank you for the suggestion.

I think you've said it yourself. It is easier said
than done.
There are sufficient inherent difference between the
two projects
to make a common API pretty much impossible. CK-Ledger
supports
MySQL. SQL-Ledger don't. SQL-Ledger runs standalone.
CK-Ledger
relies on phpGroupWare as a middle layer. Just to name
a few.

At the same time, the web service mode of data
transfer would not
work. If there is any screw up after the data
transfer, the importing
app will blame it on the data being screwed even
before transfer, while
the source app will say the importing app is importing
wrongly. It
is the classic hardware guy blaming the software and
the software folk
doing the reverse. Since it is a free software
environment, the user
has no legal recourse, and simply blame it on the
reliability of free
software as a whole and go back to using proprietary
software.

So, while the thought is laudable, it is pretty much
impossbile.

Best Regards,
CK

Andrea Rota 提到:


>>Have you ever thought about working on a two-way
conversion tool between
>>SQL-Ledger and CK-Ledger, cooperatively developed by
the two teams?
>>It would allow more people to actively experiment
with either ledger
>>system, while avoiding the "chasing-each-other"
effect...
>>I see both projects as excellent free software
products: wouldn't it be
>>great to try a (loose) collaboration on a sort of
common ledger API, in
>>the form of a web service (XML-RPC or SOAP)
interface to the ledger
>>application, so that one could refer to the common
web service interface
>>to export and import data?
>>This would also help in maintaining a clear and
always up-to-date
>>documentation of the API-to-relational mapping for
both sistems, that
>>would in turn help in having a well documented "data
scheme" for both
>>ledger systems, a real plus for a free software
project.
>>
>>Just a suggestion, and nothing more: I understand
that this might be
>>quite hard to manage, because it involves agreement
on a common API from
>>two different teams - but it would be great to have.
It could maybe also
>>help in developing converters to this sort of
meta-ledger-API from
>>proprietary ledger systems...
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>  
>>


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