[Koha-devel] pm structure : Acquisition.pm modifications

[Pat Eyler]

(pate puts on his Unit Testing hat.)

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Alan Millar wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:35:58PM +0200, paul POULAIN wrote:
> > the Acquisition.pm (aka : Catalogue.pm for MARC version) contains too
> > much subs imho. It's hard to read, and not always very coherent :
>
> > I propose to divide the script in 2 differents ones.
> > the first would be Biblio.pm (used only for biblio management :
> > biblio/biblioitems/items/additionalauthor/subtitle tables), the second
> > would remain Acquisition.pm (Catalogue.pm for MARC)
>
> I like the idea of separating the routines for biblio handling
> from the routines for order processing.   If the proposed Catalogue.pm
> is going to handle Marc record processing, which is biblio information,
> doesn't that mean that Catalogue.pm would replace Biblio.pm, not
> Acquisition.pm?
>

As we split subroutines out into new files, let's please try to write
tests for them using the Test::Harness framework.  Being able to run a
testsuite automagically and verify that we've not added new bugs will help
all of us sleep better at night.

-pate


> Better yet, instead of replacing Biblio.pm later, it could perhaps turn
> into a higher-level abstraction of Catalogue.pm
>
> - Alan
>
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