[Bug 641271] Review Request: openerp-client - Open Source ERP Client

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Raphaël Valyi <rvalyi at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Raphaël Valyi <rvalyi at gmail.com> 2010-11-09 09:09:49 EST ---
Guys,

I'm an OpenERP integrator and contributor.
I understand the issue about the license mix and hope they will sort this out
soon.

But:
If I understand correctly, the issue is only about the GTK client.
Well, why don't you package the server and the web-client who don't have those
issues (to my knowledge) and hold only the client?

You have to know that the GTK client will probably be used from others PC's
that are more likely to run Windows than Fedora (client-side) and in any case,
the GTK client is totally optional, once you installed the "web-client"
component, OpenERP can be accessed fully in your browser. So why not package
the server first?

Finally, I tel you: beware of what is said about OpenERP: there is a high
discrepancy between the marketing and the reality unfortunately (read about
experience third parties integration in forums and list to know the truth; no
well known open source ERP has a better story either to my knowledge
unfortunately), so my point is:
don't bother to package the 5.0 version it's useless, only usable by alien
integrators managing to stabilize it , not stable and usable directly in
production.
So you'll need to package version 6.x instead. Well, not so easy either given
it's still developed, may be you'll be able to package the coming RC2 and
coming releases (6.x are likely to be more professional cause it's finally
tested systematically).
Given the relative instability of the whole (though improving fortunately),
distro packages of OpenERP will only be usable if they are updated often (like
every month), and if it's easy for and advanced users to apply bzr patches that
come from Launchpad (indeed the issue, is that it's very hard to find a version
with no bug or no regression, you always has to fix bugs for your use case to
make it work). All installed I've seen of OpenERP where always made from source
using bzr and only worked if great professionals where supporting it.

All right, hope this helps.

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