Re: [Koha-devel] Question...
What useful things could I do? My PERL is quite rusty, and wasn't much use (pretty minimal in fact) to begin with...
I should say you're a perfect tester-outter. If you have a system on which you can install a fresh copy of some sort of Linux, you could test out the installation instructions and make note of where things go wrong. The INSTALL file isn't yet enough for a novice to download Koha and start using it, but it ought to be... Ben (just another tester-outter)
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:21:04PM -0400, Ben Ostrowsky said:
What useful things could I do? My PERL is quite rusty, and wasn't much use (pretty minimal in fact) to begin with...
I should say you're a perfect tester-outter. If you have a system on which you can install a fresh copy of some sort of Linux, you could test out the installation instructions and make note of where things go wrong. The INSTALL file isn't yet enough for a novice to download Koha and start using it, but it ought to be...
Thats a fantastic idea. It would be great to have a new and Improved INSTALL file for the next release. I think it would go a long way toward getting more ppl using it, even more than adding more functionality would. So that would be a great contribution Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz
INSTALL as in the text used to give the directions, or INSTALL in the sense of the make/install/etc scripts. 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. Nick
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:24:45PM -0400, Nicholas Stephen Rosasco said:
INSTALL as in the text used to give the directions, or INSTALL in the sense of the make/install/etc scripts.
How about both :-)
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.
For sure, I might get a chance to work on something like this ... course that depends what other work i get landed with :-) There is a organisation in australia who are interested in using koha, and in fact are even saying they may pay for some work to be done on it. Im sure that if they did that would help me to score some more time off my boss to work on koha *grin* Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz
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.
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