Hello, On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:36:04 +0100 Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.com.au> wrote:
> On the technical side, I found the project quite confusing at first > because although it is open source, it is not conveniently distributed > as a single source tarball, I had to build from SVN - and there are a > dozen different SVN repos[3] relating to the project, which is itself > slightly confusing. > Once you know which repos to check out, it actually builds and runs > very smoothly using the qt and postgres dependencies in Debian > squeeze - all the notes about my experience with it so far in the ITP > bug[4] > It would also be useful for me to know which other accounting packages > are popular in the free software community and whether people would > use PostBooks if it was packaged. I tried GnuCash, but it seems more > like the most basic version of Quickbooks or Microsoft Money. > PostBooks genuinely offers many of the `Pro' features of QuickBooks > or Sage, but appears a lot less complicated than a fully customizable > solution like Adempiere, so I definitely think this fills a gap. Daniel, I have almost finished packaging Postbooks. The packages aren't yet in good shape and need some clean-up and fixing, and I'm waiting for response from upstream to fix some of those issues. They seem to be very interested in doing that, so I hope we'll do some progress in that. -- WBR, Andrew
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