[Koha-devel] CPAN and re-inventing the wheel

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> Subj:[Koha-devel] CPAN and re-inventing the wheel 
> Date:7/6/2002 5:59:30 AM US Mountain Standard Time
> From:<A HREF="mailto:am12 at bolis.com">am12 at bolis.com</A>
> To:<A HREF="mailto:koha-devel at lists.sourceforge.net">koha-devel at lists.sourceforge.net</A>
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> 
> Hi-  I noticed Steve found and fixed a bug in checkvalidisbn().  That's
> great, but it got me thinking about re-inventing the wheel.  
> 
> There are a number of CPAN modules that Koha could be making use of,
> such as in this case Business::ISBN, which seemingly would bypass
> the whole issue of us needing to find and fix such bugs.
> 
> I've seen comments in the past, somewhere in the list archives I 
> believe, that some Koha folks would rather write new routines in
> order to have fewer installation dependencies.
> 
> I don't think installation dependencies are the real problem.  I
> think installation simplicity is the real problem.  If there was
> an easier way to ensure dependencies are met, wouldn't that be
> better than writing more code and introducing more bugs?
> 
> Perhaps we could have a step in the install process that checks
> for required modules, and runs (or at least creates) some sort of CPAN 
> download script to install any missing modules.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> - Alan
> 
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> Alan Millar     --==> am12 at bolis.com <==--
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