Will Open Source Contributions work on Pro

**codybraxton** · 2006-03-24, 10:41 PM

Hi,

I have the pro version of Sugar and I was wondering if the user submitted modules on sugarforge can be used in the pro version?

Thanks

**Markku** · 2006-03-29, 05:58 PM

Most probably not without manual changes as Pro tables have at least one extra field (team) compared to OS version and most likely other differencies as well.

Similar question was asked from Andrew Whitehead after he released his empolyee directory module, enclosed please see his answer (from this thread http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10449)

Hope this helps

Originally Posted by cywolf

This module is designed only for the open source edition.

As it replaces several files in the Users directory, you would need to manually merge the changes into the Enterprise (or Pro) version of those files, which would contain additional features not present in the OS version.

This wouldn't be too difficult for an average programmer to do (all the changes are marked), but we can't distribute the source files from Pro or Enterprise in an installable module (or otherwise).

**codybraxton** · 2006-03-29, 10:05 PM

Thanks for the reply. Thats really weak because I'm paying for sugarpro and missing out on alot of the really cool stuff that is available for free from the community. I am so disapointed.

longreach · 2006-03-29, 10:24 PM

Yes - definately a drawback of the segmented market approach of 'commercial open source'. I guess it is just not a perfect world. If it were possible for more of these modules to become contributions, and therefore become part of the base code, and then assimilated into the Pro and Enterprise builds as well - that would be so much better from so many points of view. But this seems to involve assigning the copyright to SugarCRM for each contribution, so in practice, very few add-on modules have ever become part of the base software. However, they (and their popularity) do influence SugarCRM's development path - and they often build new features which emulate features in prior third party add-ons.

**codybraxton** · 2006-03-30, 01:34 AM

Yeah definitely a drawback. Sugar should watch what the community creates and incorporate everything it can into each new release because with customization costs sugar could become way more expensive than salesforce (which i hate).
Looks like I'll just have to work on my php skills so I don't have to pay people $80/hour to make any changes.