On Wed, 16 May 2001, Nicholas Stephen Rosasco wrote:
INSTALL as in the text used to give the directions, or INSTALL in the sense of the make/install/etc scripts.
I promised at one time to look into making deb and rpm packages. I'm going to start looking at that today. "apt-get install koha" would sure be nice, eh?
FYI, I think it would serious enhance the use of the product to add in the ISBM -> full record (ie Z39.50 and MARC items) since that is the easiest way to input records I can think of.
I've been working on Z39.50 searches. I've gotten it to work with the National Library of Canada, but I need to register with them to get full marc record results. The system that Koha currently uses to store book data is not very compatible with MARC, and MySQL itself is probably not the easiest medium to store MARC records in. My thought on this was to have some kind of automatic converter from MARC records to Koha data. Then users can choose to edit the MARC records, and the Koha records will be modified accordingly. Modifying Koha records directly would not have an easy way to translate back to MARC format, since, for example, subject classifications are stored in a simpler way (ie no indication if a subject division is geographic, personal, chronological, etc.). I have written my own parser for MARC records that works okay for me, and I've been using it to import individual MARC records into Koha. There are also perl modules for handling MARC records, which I haven't investigated. Steve.