Trying Tryton
Trying Tryton
Posted Dec 7, 2017 4:09 UTC (Thu) by jbicha (subscriber, #75043)In reply to: Trying Tryton by shiftee
Parent article: Trying Tryton
Posted Dec 7, 2017 15:32 UTC (Thu)
by corbet (editor, #1)
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Posted Dec 7, 2017 21:45 UTC (Thu)
by debacle (subscriber, #7114)
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Without knowing much about Tryton, I have the feeling, that the review does it a little bit of injustice. There is a use case, i.e. "SMB accounting", but it is clear from the beginning, that both Tryton and Odoo are business application platforms, not applications. If I understand correctly, such systems are always a kind of workbench. That is the whole business case for thousands SAP and Oracle consulting companies. I'm clearly not an expert on those things, but I would try GnuCash (what you did), LedgerSMB, and PostBooks. At least from their short description they look more like applications, not platforms, to me.
Anyway, an interesting read!
PS: It seems, that Debian unstable has relatively recent version of all mentioned programs, but Odoo.
Posted Dec 7, 2017 21:48 UTC (Thu)
by corbet (editor, #1)
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Odoo, FWIW, is more oriented toward the small-business accounting use case. It has a lot of features missing for commercial reasons, but a real effort has been made to have it work out of the box and be reasonably easy to work with.
Posted Dec 14, 2017 16:10 UTC (Thu)
by saxa (guest, #30413)
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I think that LWN is looking for something working right out of the box, at least minimally. Now I would assume as they wrote that no user would try to install another distro just to have a software working better. It is not very well thought if you think it that way.
Posted Dec 14, 2017 16:13 UTC (Thu)
by corbet (editor, #1)
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I can fully believe it might work better on a different platform. I didn't have a Debian box handy to try it on, but it doesn't matter: I'd seen enough to understand that Tryton, for all its virtues, was not intended for the use case at hand.
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Indeed, I tried to carefully express that Tryton isn't "bad", it's just not aimed at this use case.
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Installation isn't an issue; I don't think that software should be judged based on whether there's a convenient package available for a specific distribution. The real problem is that, even working perfectly out of the box, Tryton isn't aimed at the use case in question.
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