Hi, On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:16:57PM +1300, Patrick Quinn-Graham wrote:

That would be a good idea, although to a certain extent it's just as easy to directly connect to the database.

The problem with directly connecting to the database is that you will need to duplicate all the logic in the existing CGI code. So, since there is no code reuse between the CGI scripts (written in Perl) and the Win32 client (written in VB), when people start adding functionality to the CGI, you will need to add identical functionality to the VB client. After a while, this might get frustrating. About the telnet client I mentioned earlier, it seems that it is broken quite badly and will need to be rewritten. But it would likely not be rewritten until Koha is better modularized.

I'm not sure how to go about starting to help with modularization... But m willing to give anything a go.

How far away is 2.1 likely to be? My main reason for doing stuff now is that I'm currently unemployed (I'm a student, and it's summer), and while doing a course, it's not anywhere near full time (again, it's summer).

Likely by the time it is released, I'll be back in a full time course.

I think someone else might be better to answer these. -- Ambrose Li <a.c.li@ieee.org>