[Koha-devel] about IRC meeting

[paul POULAIN]

I won't be at IRC meeting tonight (4AM for me ;-) ), because i'm ill. I 
don't think it's important. Hope to be OK tomorrow morning.

I wanted to give some news about the MARC stuff :
* The biblio.pm API is almost done i hope. What's missing is a proper 
way to manage additionalauthors and additionaltitles. I haven't tested 
complex combinations of biblio/bibitems/items too. I've done some tests, 
it seems the "OLD" koha is working still good (tests done with normal 
and acqui.simple). If you take a look at biblio.pm, you'll see how i've 
divided the problem in 4 types : old-DB, marc-DB, old-API, marc-API. 
Note old-API in CVS is supposed to use hashs as parameters, and it's A 
LOT EASIER for me...
* Adding a biblio with the normal acquisition works fine, even in 
MARC-DB : it adds all what it does (except for addauth and addtit, of 
course) in the MARC-DB.
* In acqui.simple, i've begun to rewrite the marcimport.pl to be 
compatible with the MARC-DB (structure of marc : it imports MARC-21 as 
well as UNIMARC, as well as USMARC, you just have to define correctly 
the parameters tables, and full recording of all MARC datas in the 
MARC-DB). It seems to work not bad in the ProcessFile part (it shows the 
"old-DB" fields and the MARC fields almost exactly as the 1.2 version 
did). I haven't begun to work on DB-add. Note that as i was rewriting 
the script, i use HTML::Template for outputs i create.

Good meeting anyway for everybody.
--
Paul