ERP 5.0 beta

rshapiro 2018-10-08 13:45:52 UTC #1

I see on the product roadmap that the 5.0 beta should be coming soon.
https://xtupleuniversity.xtuple.com/library/articles/product-roadmap

We are in the early phases of a custom implementation that will be making extensive use of CRM. I would love to get a build of 5.0 once it is stable. We will be in development through Q1-2019 and could also help with testing.

What do you think?

gmoskowitz 2018-10-08 14:15:27 UTC #2

Rebecca,

There are nightly PostBooks builds on SourceForge that you can play with:

this is PostBooks only, no commercial stuff
this is pre-Alpha, so expect bugs (many of which we know about already)
nightly builds occasionally fail, so if you may have to go back a day or two to find a successful build
as of Oct 8, 2018, there has been no 5_0_x build on Windows

If you need access to commercial extensions, contact us privately and we can make appropriate arrangements.

Gil

rshapiro 2018-10-08 15:00:50 UTC #3

Thanks, Gil. I will watch SourceForge for a windows build.

vacshop 2018-10-16 18:37:13 UTC #4

Please add 5.0 to the compatibility matrix. For us upgrading the PostgreSQL database to a new release level takes nearly as much coordination as does upgrading xTuple.

caleb194 2018-11-02 16:51:43 UTC #5

Does anyone know if there has been a release for windows for Xtuple 5.0 I am looking to see some of the changes. If not, What is a nightly build that works for linux

MissySchmidt 2018-11-02 16:56:13 UTC #6

Here is a 5.0 teaser from Gil via the xTuple blog: What's in it for me? xTuple ERP 5.0 is coming - Catch the Wave!

gmoskowitz 2018-11-02 21:06:59 UTC #7

Caleb,

We run builds 5 nights a week and upload them to SourceForge for public consumption. Both 4.12.0 and 5.0.0 pre-alphas have been there for a long time. If you're looking for a specific platform (e.g. Linux) and can't find it in the most recent nightly build, check one or two nights back.

Fair warning — download databases, Updater packages, and desktop client bundles from the same night. Bug fixes often require changes to both database and client application. Features almost always do. These changes may break extensions, which are not yet part of our nightly build process.

Gil

Note: There will be a lag between getting macOS, Linux, and Windows builds running when we switch Qt versions. This is infrequent but it does happen. Most recently we upgraded from Qt 5.5.1 to 5.11.2 and it took us a very long time to get the Windows builds running.

caleb194 2018-11-02 21:40:20 UTC #8

Gil,
Thanks for the info and warnings. I have gotten everything from source forge, but I ran into a problem where it told me that the drivers to connect to the database were not installed. I can connect to the database so I know that it should have all the drivers.(Using windows 10 for Xtuple 5.0 11/1) I was thinking that it may be a problem with the specific build that I downloaded. But after looking back it seems to be the only nightly build of the 5.0 for the windows platform. Ill switch to a Linux environment to do my testing so as not to run into qt problems .

rshapiro 2018-11-14 22:04:55 UTC #9

Caleb194 I am having the same problem with the windows 5.0alpha nightly. the last one I tried was from 11/13/2018. I am upgrading postbooks from 4.11.3 to 5.0 alpha. I have not been able to get past this client error. Is there any resolution?

gmoskowitz 2018-11-14 22:40:25 UTC #10

Caleb and Rebecca,

No, we don't have a resolution for this yet. We know there's something wrong with the 5.0.0-pre-alpha nightly builds but don't know what it is yet — the two machines the developers checked on don't complain but our QA folks' machines do.

Make sure you have the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017 installed. See README_windows.txt in the nightly build's .zip file for details.

Caleb — The xTuple ERP client* connects to the PostgreSQL database server using one or two more internal layers of software than psql or pgAdmin. When our application complains that it's unable to load the drivers, it usually means there's a problem with these extra layers — the Qt PostgreSQL plugin system —and rarely a problem with the PostgreSQL or operating system installation.

Gil

and OpenRPT, CSVImp, Updater, ...

rshapiro 2018-11-15 22:05:33 UTC #11

Gil,

I downloaded and installed the Visual C++ libraries from the Microsoft site and also executed the vc_redist.x64.exe
you provided. Neither has resolved the problem though when I search for the MSVCP140.dll it is found in multiple locations on my PC. We use Office 365 here. Let me know if there is anything else to try.

Rebecca

caleb194 2018-11-16 14:49:58 UTC #12

Rebecca,
This may be a long shot, Perhaps setting up the desktop development environment would get everything that we need to run the alpha. I will try that and let you know how it goes

davidbeauchamp 2018-11-16 14:54:18 UTC #13

If this is the same issue I ran in to, you also need MSVC++ 2013 runtimes installed, for the PostgreSQL driver: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784

caleb194 2018-11-16 16:12:13 UTC #14

MSVC++ 2013 was not the fix for me. I am going to install QT 5.10 and see if that adds some missing driver.

gmoskowitz 2018-12-03 14:01:50 UTC #15

Caleb and Rebecca,

We found the problem and it should be fixed in the latest Windows nightly builds for 5_0_x. There were a number of files missing that managed to go undetected for a while.

Gil

rshapiro 2018-12-03 17:25:20 UTC #16

Gil, I downloaded the windows nightly from 11-30 (xTuple-5.0.0-alpha-g15a34c664-WindowsQt5) and I continue to get the same error when logging into the client. Thoughts? Is there an incident for this issue that I can add to? I continue to have the problem with the nightly build from 12-3. Rebecca

rshapiro 2019-02-19 15:23:02 UTC #17

FYI - the error I was encountering was resolved after applying the package from 2019-01-21 I was able to open the vendor with the nightly client from that same nightly build.

gmoskowitz 2019-02-19 15:47:30 UTC #18

[whew]
Thanks for the update. Glad to hear things are working now.

Gil