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["Olivier Dony \(OpenERP\)" <1081560@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jean-Michel,

You seem to have a peculiar notion of this "open source spirit" you defend. The good open source contributors I know don't come and tell the developers what they have to do. They start by respectfully reporting what they think is a bug.  And if the developers deem the bug/feature out of scope, they don't demean themselves by getting aggressive or disrespectful, they bite the bullet and either work on a solution themselves or find someone with the skills to do it for them, possibly contributing it back later.
The developers don't usually owe you anything, so being agressive won't achieve much [1].

The way OpenERP bugs are managed is clearly described in the
documentation[2]: marking a bug as "Wishlist" or as "Won't Fix" doesn't
hide it, it's a normal part of the bug classification. It indicates
clearly that OpenERP developers won't work on it at the moment, but
doesn't prevent anyone from working on it or providing a patch/merge
proposal. With the increasing community size, OpenERP developers have to
handle dozens of bug reports every day, so a strict bug management
policy is required, there's nothing personal.

More fundamentally, OpenERP's design principle is not to cover every
functional area in-depth. It is to provide a simple common base for
enterprise management needs, while making these basic features easy to
extend for more specific needs. We can probably find as many "biggest
bug or limitation of the year" as there are OpenERP features, because
every company has advanced needs in some areas.

As for the issue you describe, it may indeed be seen as a
limitation/inconvenience of OpenERP's purchase pricelists, so perhaps
you could work on a proof-of-concept solution/patch that we might
consider including in a future OpenERP version? I haven't analyzed the
option of adding a currency on Supplier Pricelists, but that might make
sense and would be trivial to implement.

In the mean time, you might also want to study a little bit more the
workarounds that have been suggested, because they *do* work for what
you want to do. The forum post you mentioned in comment #8 seems to
correctly describe two of these solutions. And no, adding an extra "USD
Purchase Price" field on the product form would not require any
development or programming skills, it can be done purely from the user
interface. And when you define a new Price Type you will be able to
choose the currency it is expressed in, showing that it is intended to
solve this kind of use case, i.e. it's not a hack.


Thank you for your understanding,


[1] And if you are/were an OpenERP customer with an OpenERP Enterprise contract, then the OE team would definitely help you, and you might be surprised to see how quickly they can provide you with a satisfying solution and/or a custom patch.

[2] http://doc.openerp.com/v6.0/contribute/11_bug_tracker.html
#definition-of-a-bug

** Summary changed:

- multi-currency purchase order
+ [wishlist] improving multi-currency purchase pricelists

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Title:
  [wishlist] improving multi-currency purchase pricelists

Status in OpenERP Addons (modules):
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  These remarks apply for OpenERP 6.04 at least:

  Purchase orders should allow to choose a currency. 
  Another reaseon is that Supplier invoices allow picking-up a currency.

  Example:
  EUR is default currency.
  OpenERP enabled currencies: USD and EUR.

  Company A makes a purches order in USD to a US supplier.

  Purchase order is sent to the supplier with prices in USD.
  This makes no sense to send a puchase order to a US supplier with prices in Euros.

  A paymenent is made in USD but registered in EUROs.

  i.e. conversion between currencies should only apply when writing an invoice.
  Not when making a purchase order.

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