Pat Eyler wrote:
Thanks Paul for all the time and effort. I'm trying to digest all of it right now, so I'll hold off on making comments about it until I attain enlightnement ;)
One tangental comment though; I've noticed a lot of small comments in a variety of places and from a lot of people that talk about how to implement things in a very web specific way. This is a dangerous place to go. It would be a lot better if we develop a very clear division between business logic and presentation logic. If we do this well, it means that we can write different front-ends much more easily (CLI, GNOME, KDE, FOX, WAP[1], whatever).
-pate
[1] Wouldn't it be great to reserve, renew, search for materials from a WAP enabled cell phone or similar device?
If I understand well, you say that because of my paragraph about how to manually add a biblio with the web interface ? If that's it, I'm OK. But I hope my DB-structure doesn't depend on the tool you use to play with koha... My two main priorities were : having a generic MARC structure to be able to accept any MARC format, and having a structure that enables fast searches on medium-big libraries. -- Paul