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Anyone here managed to like Odoo? It's the first ERP system I work with and the experience is sobering so far.

- no useful documentation aka read the code bro, it's open source

- "FIXME don't ever do this" comments all over the code base

- no update routine: download source of enterprise edition, patch your private repo, feed it in your CD/CI. I'm pretty sure vulnerabilities get patched quickly all over the world ;)

- weird design decisions like undocumented semantics for identifiers (variables, module names etc.)

- Python/JS/XML code living in the database (i.e. need the production DB to develop/test)

- performance

- addons needed for serious business use cases are not open source

- code quality of third party addons is a nightmare

Maybe this is still harmless compared to its competitors, I don't know...



Having XML/JSON stored in DB is pretty common actually (sometimes you need to store same/related info with different "schemas").

Storing Python and JS.....WTF?


Such systems are usually divided into platform and customization, so that customization can be tweaked without reinstalling the whole thing.




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