I think Tümer makes a very good point here. I would hate to adopt zebra and then lose the entire Windows market! It seems to me we should address this concern before we discuss Paul's (excellent!) plan for adopting zebra. Having said that, I am going to make a comment about Paul's (excellent!) plan for adopting zebra. :D The biggest problem IMHO with the current MARC editor is the l-o-n-g time it takes to process a record. An external MARC editor may help, but couldn't we also convert the internal MARC editor so it processes new records in batches? (I think modification of records could still be done in real time.) The editor could build an iso2709 file containing several records, instead of just one record, and then use something like bulkmarcimport to load them. Stephen Tümer Garip said:

Hi Paul, I could not post it to koha-devel. So I am sending this to you

-----Original Message----- From: Tümer Garip [mailto:tgarip@neu.edu.tr] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 5:00 PM To: 'koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: FW: Worries about zebra

-----Original Message----- From: Tümer Garip [mailto:tgarip@neu.edu.tr] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 10:07 AM To: 'koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: Worries about zebra

My concern is regarding Windows users. I have set up Zap on our Windows system and noted that I can not sort the results. This problrm is also reported on their mailing list. The problem lies in Zebra requiring TCL to sort and the available zap module not compiled with TCL. I have tried compiling a new zap module with TCL but in vain. It seems some other people tried the same but not succesful either.

So the question is if we move to zebra (which I hope we do) will Koha still be usable on windows platforms?

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From bugzilla mails it looks there is quite a lot of windows users.

Up till now only the Z3950 client on koha did not work for windows users but that we could overcome by using external clients. But with this move we have to be certain whether koha will work with windows platform to be able to stay with koha.

Regards Tumer

-- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges@skemotah.com