Dan, sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you. I've been in the midst of a very hectic week. Without further ado ... At 21:29 6/30/02 -0400 Dan Watts wrote:

At 03:36 AM 6/28/02 +0000, pate wrote:

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28 June, 2002 To the Koha community;

... SNIP ... I'd like to hear back from people who are currently using or investigating Koha. If you've got stories, requests, or suggestions, please feel free to drop me a line at: kaitiaki@koha.org

On behalf of the Pillsbury Free Library (http://warner.lib.nh.us/) in Warner NH, I've been investigating Koha for about a year now. I ran into a number of the same issues others have at getting this installed. When the next release comes out, I'll probably take another look and see if I have an easier time of getting it installed.

Please do try the 1.2.1 release we made earlier today. It should install cleanly using the new installer tool. I'll be very interested in hearing about your experience with it.

Difficulties I ran into include:

Links for URLs that didn't exist (it wasn't too hard to figure out what they should be)

I think we've got the dead links taken care of. We should probably add a link checker to our pre-release test suite.

Difficulty understanding/using the acquisition module. (I haven't tried the simple mode yet)

Please do use the simple ... it's the preferred mechanism for all but larger libraries. HLT is in the midst of writing some documentation which should cover the non-simple mode acquisitions (among many other things).

Difficulty understanding what the library card number sequence is supposed to be. (I figured it out eventually. I figure I'll rip out that code and replace it with something else. This would be a good candidate for providing an optional module)

It would be good to modularize this. If you're planning on writing your own code for this, it would be nice to try to roll that (along with the changes needed to modularize things) into the Koha sources. -pate Kaitiaki the Koha Project

Dan Trustee, Pillsbury Free Library, Warner NH USA