From: Gavin T. <gt...@ke...> - 2009-02-23 02:42:55
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Following up very briefly on Chamindra's comments... On 2009-02-17, at 0814, Chamindra de Silva wrote: > I think SahanaPy, though it has a lot of merits will still take a > while to mature and since we need that inventory module ASAP, I would > continue with your code on PHP for now and work on getting that into > the next stable release (lets not waste that code you done so far!). > Of course Fran might beg to differ ;-) I would go a step further and say this, and it is a message I'm going to start beating elsewhere wrt Sahana. I would say that some of the critical success factors to getting logistics (the process, not the modules) working are: * developing a logistics information exchange format * developing discovery and web services standards for logistics servers These of course will be derived from a good set of requirements. With all these, the issue of which platform it is developed on doesn't matter, as long as they adhere to the discovery, web services and exchange formats. We have to take the bigger picture view here that for logistics to work properly, we are going to need to network organisations that are running SahanaPHP, SahanaPY, HELIOS, and whatever else may come in the future - Sahana P2P anyone?. We have to network as many warehouses and welfare centres as possible to accomplish this, and we won't do it with just one platform. I would have no problems with a Windows Sahana Logistics application if that is what is required as long as it adheres to the standards for interoperability, and of course is open source and plays well in the Sahana ecosystem. I am all for making use of richer UI's to improve user experience. And, if we are the first to implement these standards, even if they are not official, that will give us momentum in seeing them deployed, and having influence in further standards development. So, it is in our best interest to see multiple versions of logistics implemented, and build the glue to connect them. Long term - we have to take the view that Sahana is an ecosystem, not a PHP server application. Short-term - SahanaPHP is still our biggest success and continues to go from strength to strength :) Cheers Gav |