November 2003 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

New module dependency?
by MJ Ray 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

When trying to rebuildnonmarc.pl I got the following output: $ perl -I../../modules rebuildnonmarc.pl Can't locate Time/HiRes.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../../modules /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at rebuildnonmarc.pl line 12. Should I add a test for Time::HiRes to the installer? -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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release dates?
by MJ Ray 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Do we have a date for the next tarball? Already many bugs from pre5 in the installer and upgrader are fixed. I know at least one really nasty template bug was fixed. I want to make sure the other z3950 fixes are in before pre6 (or rc1?). -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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cardnumber too short?
by MJ Ray 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

It seems that a lot of library cards use 14 digit numbers. I suspect this is because some bar code scanners only support 16. At the moment, koha supports 9-character card numbers. Can we make it support 14? Do I just need to update the database? -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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includes directory help, please
by MJ Ray 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

I am not sure whether the installer puts the includes directory in the right place. See http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=600 Should the includes dir really be under the currently selected template, or is the one from intranet-tmpl/defaults/en always used? -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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Re: [Koha-devel] Re: accented characters in templates
by Owen Leonard 12 Nov '03

12 Nov '03

Thanks for everyone's reponses to this. It sounds like a couple of things have to happen to ensure that templates work for everyone. 1. Template editors like me need to be sure their text editors will save documents with their original encodeing. 2. HTML in Koha templates must reflect the encoding of that particular page. Is there any reason not to go with utf-8 for all templates as MJR/slef suggests? That is to say, is there any situation with Koha where utf-8 would be inappropriate? -- Owen

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accented characters in templates
by Owen Leonard 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

Forgive my ignorance of these multi-lingual matters: If I'm making HTML corrections to a non-English template, what do I need to do to ensure that accented or non-english characters are re-saved correctly? -- Owen

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reservereport.pl
by Owen Leonard 08 Nov '03

08 Nov '03

Is reservereport.pl something that's working? When I try to bring it up by typing the url I get this error in the log: syntax error at /usr/local/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/reservereport.pl line 49, near ""$data->[$i]->{'classification'}$data->[$i]->{'dewey'}")" Execution of /usr/local/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/reservereport.pl aborted due to compilation errors. Is it supposed to work in conjunction with another file? I couldn't find any links to it in the templates...is it orphan, something abandoned? -- Owen

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Re: Koha documents?
by Pat Eyler 07 Nov '03

07 Nov '03

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Auvo Finne wrote: > Hello Pat, > > I'm sorry maybe to make "stupid" questions, but I have no previous > acquaintance with Koha and I don't want yet to dowload and install it. No problem, although grabbing a copy to download and install is a pretty easy (and painless) process. > > Let's make first a dichotomy: database subsystem, other parts of the Koha > system. > Do you have any description of the database objects? I suppose it's a > relational database with tables etc. Which are the tables, fields, field > definitions? Are there other database objects the Koha system uses? Views? > Procedures? How are they named? Does koha.mysql give the answer? > Yes, we use MySQL to handle the RDBMS. There aren't yet good documents on the database design. We aren't yet using views, stored procedures, or similar DB functionality. > Next there must be an interface (Naming of database objects constitutes part > of this interface) between database and the other parts of the system? > How is this designed and implemented? ODBC? If Koha is written in Perl and > HTML, > what is the communication mechanism with database? You could consider Koha to use three tiers: presentation (HTML generated from perl and HTML::Template) business logic (Perl and DBI) database (MySQL) > > Regarding system outside database, it seems as if it had three subsystems, > namely intranet/librarian, circulation and OPAC. the intranet portion is the librarian's interface and includes circulation, acquisitions, and other internal tools. the OPAC handles all of the user/patron facing bits. > > What does C4 mean? Circulation module? Is circulation module part of the > intranet/librarian subsystem? > C4 is actually a historical name from the early days of development. The initial developers joked that it was all liable to blow up, and nick named the project C4 after the plastic explosive. Fortunately, it has proven quite stable in spite of the name. > Are the user interfaces of these subsystems somehow separated as a subsystem > itself? I suppose the UI is mainly written in HTML. we separate the UI propper by using HTML::Template, which allows us to create HTMLish templates which are then used by the business logic (Perl) code to present data to the end user (library staff or patron) > > Are these subsystems replaceable? Can someone for example write a new > circulation > module (let's say in Java) and replace the old one without disturbing the > functioning of other subsystems? We've tried to be very modular. It is hoped that our next version (2.2) will be even more so. I know that one library wrote a flash based circ front-end for a demo to their library board. It was quite spiffy, and worked very well with the rest of Koha. > > We can also describe the deployment of subsystems and components according > to machines > (clients, servers). Does everything happen on one machine? DBMS on one > machine, > Apache and Perl on another? Are there any client components? Is Koha > browser independent? Koha proper runs on a single server (there's no reason you couldn't split this out though -- again one of the 2.2 goals is to make this easier). The only client component is a web browser. We've tried to stay browser independant, but there is currently a bit of javascript on some pages which limits us a little bit -- I don't think most libraries would be running the borwsers that don't play well with javascript. > > Is Perl the only programming language used? Java? JavaScript? What else? Perl and (a little bit of) javascript are the only languages current;y used. There is no reason that some functionality couldn't be implemented in another language if a library wanted to do so, but it's not certain that any such new development would make it back into the core. I hope this answers your questions. If anyone else on the devel list would like to expand on what I've written, please do. -pate > > Greetings, > > Auvo > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pat Eyler" <pate(a)eylerfamily.org> > To: "Auvo Finne" <auvo.finne(a)cccc.fi> > Cc: <koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 6:14 PM > Subject: Re: Koha documents? > > > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Auvo Finne wrote: > > > > > Dear Pat, > > > > Hello Auvo, > > > > > > > > I act as a consult and codeveloper for the Tumaini University (Tanzania) > library system. > > > One of our alternatives is Koha. To seriously assess the suitability of > Koha for Tumaini > > > I would like to see some architectural documents. > > > > > > > Sadly, architectural documents are one of the things that we don't have > > in abundance. If you were willing to spend a bit of time asking questions > > (even just passing a list of questions you need answers to), we could > > probably use them to build a set of answers/documents that might help. > > > > I'm answering this on the koha-devl mailing list as well, hopefully this > > will help generate a bit more help for you as well. > > > > thanks, > > -pate > > > > > We are applying the universal software development process. This process > is very much > > > architecture centric and uses several general or detailed diagrams. > > > > > > Does it exists any descriptions of Koha main components and their > purposes, roles, > > > interaction? Descriptionsof the use of programming languages in > implementing these > > > components? Etc. > > > > > > I'll be grateful if you could help me in getting some of these > documents. > > > > > > Very best wishes, > > > > > > Auvo Finne > > > Pitkakatu 44, Jyvaskyla, Finland > > > +358 400 646 815 > > > auvo.finne(a)cccc.fi > > > > > > >

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patch for bug #384
by Chris Michalak 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

Hi there, the bug is in OLDnewbiblio in Biblio.pm at line 1459 (version 2.0.0pre5) To fix, replace : $sth->execute($bibnum,$biblio->{'title'},$biblio->{'author'},$biblio->{'copyright'},$series,$biblio->{'seriestitle'},$biblio->{'notes'},$biblio->{'abstract'}); with : $sth->execute($bibnum,$biblio->{'title'},$biblio->{'author'},$biblio->{'copyrightdate'},$series,$biblio->{'seriestitle'},$biblio->{'notes'},$biblio->{'abstract'}); Chris

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SQL problems in koha 2
by MJ Ray 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

Because of some work I was doing, I found lots of SQL queries that don't use ? placeholders. I updated those I found and will do the rest in z3950, but I have listed others on bug report number 662. Developers check that page and fix your files, please, adding notes to the BTS when files are clean. If you get time to fix other people's files, please attach patches to the bug report as normal. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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