Frequently Asked Questions
What are the differences between Fisterra 2 and Fisterra 1.x?
Fisterra 2 is a development framework, useful for:
- Building business management applications, ad hoc ERPs
or modules of other systems.
- Building any other client/server or three-tier architecture software system.
It is a great
GNOME based technology for medium/large business management projects.
Fisterra 1.x is an implementation for an automotive glass repair company. It is only useful for companies of this kind of business. Now it has changed its name to
Fisterra Garage, to avoid confussion with the development framework.
We stongly recommend the use of Fisterra 2 for any new development, and
Fisterra Garage only for companies of automative glass repair (garages) business.
Is Fisterra Garage 1.6 a stable version?
Fisterra Garage 1.6 is a stable version that is being used since 2002 for several car glasses repair customers, some of them with more than 15 garages.
A new development, using Fisterra 2, for the repair business will substitute Fisterra 1.6 around January 2006. It's called
Fisterra Repair.
What is the structure of Fisterra 2?
- fisterra-base: the framework core, including general UI, persistence, replication and business logic support services.
- fisterra-bmodules: commonly used business modules, such as person and document management.
- fisterra-distribution: a sectorial implementations built in top of Fisterra oriented to the retail business, with Point of Sale functionality.
- fisterra-repair: another sectorial implementation oriented to the repair cars business (garages) is just being started. It will eventually supersede fisterra-garage.
Is Fisterra 2 a stable framework?
- fisterra-base is a stable and mature framework.
- fisterra-bmodules only has an unstable release
- fisterra-distribution is a stable point of sale application.
* fisterra-repair is at the beginning of its development. If you want an stable software for garages, you should see about fisterra-garage, which is currently implemented with the legacy Fisterra 1.x platform.
Which tecnologies are involved in Fisterra 2?
- GNOME libraries: development kit of GNOME desktop, the standard desktop environment for Linux systems.
- Fisterra is well proven and reliable using PostreSQL database. Other database are hoped to work, but it's not tested.
- Fisterra uses CORBA for communication between layers, and as the middleware tecnology.
What programming languages could be used to develop for Fisterra 2?
Fisterra is implemented in the C programming language, and all the framework is available as public API's over this.
Though only C is currently supported in Fisterra, it has been thought and developed in a way it should be easy to implement bindings in other languages, and it's in our interest to get this to be done. We would thang some help from the Community to do it a reality as soon as possible.
What GNU/Linux distributions are supported in Fisterra 2?
We are building stable releases of
fisterra-base (framework kit) and
fisterra-distribution (point of sale implementation) for Debian Sarge. Any help to make packages for other distributions regularly is encouraged by our team.
Is it possible to run Fisterra 2 in any other OS?
On the server side, Fisterra 2 is only for GNU/Linux.
On the client side, the migration of Evolution to Windows should allow Fisterra 2 clients to run in Microsoft OS, although is not tested yet.
Could I get support for Fisterra 1.x or Fisterra 2?
Yes, you can get community support through the
project mailing lists and the
project IRC channel.
You can also get commercial support from Igalia
http://www.igalia.com.
What license does the code have?
The code is licensed
using GPL. You can find more information about this license in the gnu webpage.
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