Open Source Bookkeeping and Accounting Software in PHP - Demo - Wiki - Download - Forum - Development
I’ve just tagged PBooks 0.11. This version step includes some significant changes to keep up with the progress made on Nexista. The codebase of which is really starting to stabilize after some serious improvements.
Also included in this increment is a rewrite of the XSL templates, which will make customizing the look and feel of PBooks much easier.
Enjoy!
PBooks 0.10 has been released!
If you’ve been watching the SVN commits - they haven’t been too frequent or substantial lately. Apart from my wife and I having our first child, its also tax season here in the states. I’ve been using PBooks to manage my small business finances and its time to reconcile all the accounts for 2007. Its still a lot of manual work, but I’m happy to say everything is working really well!
With that said, I’m feeling like a stable release within 2008 might be pushing it. There is still a lot of work to be done before PBooks is ready for prime time. For the adventurous - feel free to give PBooks a try. 
To ease installation woes, I’m moving to a monolithic distribution model. This way there will only be one SVN checkout, or one folder required to install PBooks.
Pre-packaged distributions for PEAR, Debian, and the like will not be monolithic, however, but we’re not ready for that yet anyway.
PS - Monolithic, in this sense, simply means “all in one giant package”. I only learned the meaning of this term in this context recently as it related to a monolithic kernel. In the case of software applications, libraries are handy because many applications can share their common elements. However, this can make installation a bear. This is just one more example of how convenience wins over efficiency!
PBooks version 0.08 has been released, and you can find the complete tarball in the new download location:
While there continue to be some issues with Selenium tests (failures when there shouldn’t be), PBooks 0.08 is almost ready for release.
Installation has been a significant hurdle for many people so in ticket 138 I have specified the need to test out a complete install prior to release. An installation into a webserver docroot will be tested, as even though it is not recommended, many users on shared hosts find it easier to do so.
Latest Comments
RSS