April 2008 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

'free' shelves: do they work?
by Tina Burger 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Hi all, Can anyone tell me what the status is of 'free' shelves? Do they work in 3.0? Thanks, --Tina -- Tina N. Burger VP Marketing, LibLime 449 East State St. PO Box 892 Athens, OH 45701 (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 705 tnb(a)liblime.com http://liblime.com

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha-patches] [PATCH] Add YUI Rich Text Editor to OPAC and Koha News page
by Henri-Damien LAURENT 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

License question : I saw that your patch is using BSD licensed files. I am not a jurist nor an ayatollah of GPL. But Is it OK to use this ? (Asking all the devel persons) If it is, I found a good soft USEMARCON http://www.bl.uk/services/bibliographic/usemarcon.html that could be quite useful in some ways in order to improve multimarc support. -- Henri-Damien LAURENT BibLibre SARL http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc tel : +33 4 67 65 75 50

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Two copies of every posting to this list
by Rick Welykochy 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Hi all I am receiving two copies of postings. The first is has these headers: Sender: koha-devel-bounces+rick=praxis.com.au(a)nongnu.org Errors-To: koha-devel-bounces+rick=praxis.com.au(a)nongnu.org The second, these: Sender: koha-devel-bounces(a)lists.koha.org Errors-To: koha-devel-bounces(a)lists.koha.org Anyone else seeing this behaviour? Better still, anyone know how to stop it? cheers rickw -- ________________________________________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor We like to think of ourselves as the Microsoft of the energy world. -- Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron

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Ubuntu 8.04 and Koha 3
by Chadwick, John, DCA 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

I have noticed that Ubuntu 8.04 LTS - desktop and server - is set for release later this week. We are currently running Ubuntu 7.10. Does anyone have any thoughts on how well Koha 3 would (or would not) work with Ubuntu 8.04? Thanks, John +----------------------------------------------------------------------- -----+ John Chadwick, Ed.D. Information Technology Manager New Mexico State Library 1209 Camino Carlos Rey Santa Fe, NM 87507 Phone: 505-476-9740 Cell: 505-629-8116 Fax: 505-476-9761 john.chadwick(a)state.nm.us http://www.nmstatelibrary.org Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including all attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited unless specifically provided under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message. -- This email has been scanned by the Sybari - Antigen Email System. _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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missing090field.pl error
by Bernard Shiundu 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

I'm running a test 22 t0 3.0 upgrade. Everything else runs good but when I run the missing090field.pl script it goes through my records (working as it should) then suddenly dies with the error code: "Can't call method "field" on an undefined value at missing090field.pl line 41." Anyone else had this happen to them and any suggestions? Bernard Shiundu Strathmore Library

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.gitignore
by Ryan Higgins 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

I'd like to suggest that the .gitignore recently pushed to the public repo be removed, and that Koha not enforce any conventions via .gitignore . -- Ryan Higgins LibLime * Open-Source Solutions for Libraries Featuring KohaZOOM ILS 888-564-2457 x704 _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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circulation rules and renewal periods
by Ignacio Javier 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

Hi everybody: Can currently be defined in koha periods for renewals per user and itemtype? Greetings, Ignacio Javier | Desarrollador Software Factory Coremain S.L.U. Parque Empresarial Costa Vella Rúa de Amio 128 15707 Santiago de Compostela Tlf. 902 90 55 90 ignacio.gomez(a)coremain.com www.coremain.com La información contenida en este mensaje y sus posibles documentos adjuntos es privada y confidencial y está dirigida únicamente a su destinatario/a. Si usted no es el/la destinatario/a original de este mensaje, por favor elimínelo. La distribución o copia de este mensaje no está autorizada.

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Re: interest in improving automated tests with a testing database
by Andrew Moore 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Hi again Koha developers - Galen and I just submitted a few patches that implement this new testing method. I'm interested in any feedback you have before they're committed. http://lists.koha.org/pipermail/koha-patches/2008-April/000172.html http://lists.koha.org/pipermail/koha-patches/2008-April/000171.html http://lists.koha.org/pipermail/koha-patches/2008-April/000173.html http://lists.koha.org/pipermail/koha-patches/2008-April/000174.html http://lists.koha.org/pipermail/koha-patches/2008-April/000175.html These create a new t/Makefile which runs a t/database_dependent.pl test script which creates a test database and runs some automated tests against it. Those tests are in the new t/lib directory and use Test::Class to organize and run them. The way that you use this is to re-run the top level 'perl Makefile.PL' which will prompt you for some information about a test database that can be built. Then, you can 'cd t' and run 'make test' in there. This will make sure that your new test database is created and used for the test suite. I expect that eventually this process will be made easier, but this is a first stab at a solution, and I'm trying to avoid interfering with normal installation as much as possible. I'm interested in hearing suggestions about how the process of setting up the database and running the zebra stuff works. I'm also interested in hearing about any of these tests that fail. I may take the opportunity to fix some of these before the code is committed, or fix them later. Thanks for your help. -Andy On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Andrew Moore <andrew.moore(a)liblime.com> wrote: > Hi Koha developers - > > I have caught some of you on IRC and such, but for the rest of you, > I'm a new developer at LibLime working on Koha. > > I'm interested in improving the automated test suite a little bit, and > I'm hoping to get some feedback from any interested developers and > users. There are some database specific tests in the t/db_dependent > directory, but I think they can be improved quite a bit. I'll lay out > what I'm picturing, and please let me know if you picture a different > plan, or have any ways to improve this one. > > I'd like to have a 'make' target similar to 'make test' that would > build a nearly empty, skeleton database that we could run some > automated tests against. Since this would not be the same database > that live data is held in, we wouldn't have to worry about deleting or > overwriting any useful data. The testing could insert example data and > data known to trigger past bugs to ensure that they don't recur. I > don't imagine making this a standard part of 'make test', at least at > first, since I don't imagine that all end users want to have a second > database built just to test against. I think it could be immensely > useful for us developers, though, right away. > > One useful way I've seen this done in the past is trough the use of > the Test::Class perl module. It's similar to the xUnit framework (or > jUnit or nUnit) in that it lets you run a bit of code before and after > each test to set up the environment (the test fixture). That way, you > can ensure that the database looks clean between when different pieces > of the test suite runs so that one test script doesn't interfere with > another. It also lets your test scripts inherit from each other so > that similar test scripts can share the same code to set up their > fixtures. > > I have a small working prototype of this, but before I get much > further, I want to ask if you have any suggestions or advice for this. > Please let me know if this sounds like something that would be useful > to you, and if there's anything I need to make sure I consider. > > Thanks, > -Andy > _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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Authorities searching (3 things)
by Paul POULAIN 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Hello, 3 questions/problems/suggestions : === 1 === Previously, one could search on authorities : - on the $a of the heading. Useful to find "Mister John" by not having all firstname "john" - on the heading itself - anywhere in the authority Those 3 possibilities are still in the staff client, but ... the underlying code treat $a as "Heading", and the result is the same as for heading. I don't know in MARC21, but in UNIMARC, the possibility was very important and interesting. I volunteer to reintroduce it, but I must know if it has been removed by mistake, or if there is something specific to MARC21. === 2 === Ordering authorities. Actually, the order is done on heading $a. That's not enough : when you search the author "Martin" (our french "Doe"), you get zillions results, unordered on the firstname. So we need to introduce a 2nd level of ordering. In UNIMARC, usually on the $b of the heading. === 3 ==== the authority-search.inc : there are 3 tabs, to search on heading ($a), heading, anywhere. libraries prefer the previous interface, that displayed the 3 lines, to show that you can search : heading ($a) : _______________ Heading : _______________ Anywhere : _______________ and you can search the 3 simultaneously. for example : heading ($a) : john, heading : Owen will find only surname john and firstname owen. the new behaviour is not clear enough for the users imo. how could we reintroduce the clear choice of the 3 input fields available at the same time ? Your opinion welcomed. -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : 04 91 31 45 19

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Installing on Ubuntu 7.10
by Ed Veal 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

I am attempting to install Koha on Ubuntu 7.10 and am getting some dependency errors. I have solved most of them but still have a few outstanding. Here is what I am getting after I run installer.pl +++++++++++ MISSING PERL MODULES You are missing some Perl modules required by Koha. Please run this again after installing them. They may be installed by finding packages from your operating system supplier, or running (as root) the following commands: export LC_ALL=C perl -MCPAN -e 'install "ZOOM"' perl -MCPAN -e 'install "You will need Net::LDAP if you want to authentify patrons through a LDAP"' ++++++++++++ I have tried running the above commands from root but still get errors. Any assistance? Ed **************************************************************** Edward Veal (eveal(a)mail.ci.lubbock.tx.us) System Administrator Lubbock Public Library http://www.lubbocklibrary.com Mahon Library 1306 9th St. Lubbock, TX 79401 voice: 806-775-2849 fax: 806-775-2827 *******************************************************************

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