Hey Koha-coder types! I've got a draft FAQ file (incomplete, but ready for some comment, I think) up at http://www.people.virginia.edu/~nsr4n/Koha/faq.html Style/etc isn't settled, but just general opinion/suggestion is welcome. At some point I'm going to need to pick (for consistency's sake, if nothing else) US vs UK/Commonwealth spelling -- as most of you are Kiwi or Canadian :) and I am not, I am open to suggestions as to which I should favor -- at the moment, both are included. Nick ...apparently the FAQ maintainer.
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Nicholas Stephen Rosasco wrote:
Hey Koha-coder types!
Under recommended software, you might want to mention that a server running Linux is required. Should be obvious to most people, but Apache, Perl and MySql can all be run on Windows machines as well... Come to think of it, it may even be possible to run Koha on a windows machine. :) The koha mailing list information page is at: http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha The koha-devel mailing list (for developers and those who like to bug developers) is at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/koha-devel OpenBook This is just my opinion and may be completely wrong! :) OpenBook is no longer based on Koha. It was _inspired_ by Koha. The people who develop OpenBook wanted to use PHP instead of Perl, and have created their product entirely from scratch. It is possible that there may be some lingering similarities in the database, but even there I doubt it as they have switched completely to a MARC based database, as far as I know. I believe that both products are released under the GPL, but moving code back and forth between the two would probably not be trivial, based on the different programming languages, and the different database schemas. However, I _do_ plan to steal their Z39.50 searching form, as they obviously have more knowledge of Z39.50 attributes than I do. :) Steve.
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 11:43:29AM -0800, Tonnesen Steve said:
OpenBook
This is just my opinion and may be completely wrong! :)
OpenBook is no longer based on Koha. It was _inspired_ by Koha. The people who develop OpenBook wanted to use PHP instead of Perl, and have created their product entirely from scratch. It is possible that there may be some lingering similarities in the database, but even there I doubt it as they have switched completely to a MARC based database, as far as I know.
Yep, I go for this, inspired is the right word. Who maintains Koha? Koha is currently maintained by a team of volunteer developers spread across New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. We could add poland to here as well, Pawel did the neat translation script and has helped with installs in poland IIRC. Ill need to check this with Rosalie, but Horowhenua has 4 branches (well 3 really one is very very small and part time i think) It has 28457 borrowers and 82733 items (according to the db) It runs on an PIII 1ghz machine, running Debian GNU/Linux. Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz
OK. The various responses I've gotten are integrated (more or less). Assuming no one has objections, I'd like to throw the 2nd version of the draft out at the list.... http://www.people.virginia.edu/~nsr4n/Koha/faq.html Nick
FAQ v0.2:
In theory, all the "back end" items above on Windows (along with Koha), but the Linux OS is robuster :) and currently no one we know of runs Koha on anything but Linux server.... and we have done no testing as yet on anything but Linux.
If we need to talk about OS differences, I'm confident we can represent GNU/Linux on its merits, thus: All of these tools are also available for Windows. However, GNU/Linux is Free Software (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) and is also available at no cost. As a result, Koha's developers use GNU/Linux and think you will probably prefer to do so too. Ben
A (slightly edited) version of the below is part of the FAQ (call it v.0.2.1?) and I'm gonna send it out to the general list for additions (to the questions, not responses, I think) and then fill in the missing bits (and repeat the review process). On 8 Nov 2001, Ben Ostrowsky wrote:
FAQ v0.2:
In theory, all the "back end" items above on Windows (along with Koha), but the Linux OS is robuster :) and currently no one we know of runs Koha on anything but Linux server.... and we have done no testing as yet on anything but Linux.
If we need to talk about OS differences, I'm confident we can represent GNU/Linux on its merits, thus:
All of these tools are also available for Windows. However, GNU/Linux is Free Software (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) and is also available at no cost. As a result, Koha's developers use GNU/Linux and think you will probably prefer to do so too.
Ben
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