[Koha-devel] MARC Editor in 'stable' CVS Badly Broken

[Paul POULAIN]

Joshua Ferraro a écrit :
> Hi Paul et al,

Hi Joshua,


> This morning I updated my working "stable" CVS repo to take a look 
> at the recent MARC editor commits and I discovered that things are 
> very badly broken:
> After 6 hours of attempting to track down the cause of these and other
> bugs I didn't take notes on, I have given up. I'd like to request that
> we revert the stable CVS MARC editor to the previously working
> versions:

I tried to install a 2.2.6RC1 at IPT, and they reported a few other 
problems. They are back to 2.2.5

> Biblio.pm 1.115.2.54
> addbiblio.pl 1.52.2.40
> addbiblio.tmpl (not sure, many unrelated changes committed at the
> same time)

I am OK with this, although i'm quite unhappy because I spent many hours 
on the modifs.

> I will repeat that MARC::File::XML can handle iso-8859-1 encoding
> if you specify that you're working with non-MARC21 data (and if
> you have 8859 encoding, you don't have MARC21 data) IF YOUR
> XML PARSER CAN HANDLE 8859 ENCODING. Someone with non-MARC21 data
> should take a look at the latest Sourceforge version of 
> MARC::File::XML to see how this is handled and modify Koha's editor
> accordingly (I may have a chance to do this at some point, but I'm
> a bit burned out on this at the moment).

I could not succeed to use MARC::File::XML
However, this is not really a problem : the hack to use HTML2XML then 
xml2marc or directly html2marc is 4 lines long, and totally harmless 
when TemplateEncoding=UTF-8.

All your problems are related i'm afraid to the work I made to have a 
100% javascript CloneTag. The 1st one did not work well, I tried to fix 
it, and had to make too many changes after...
The MARC editor has so many limits, that I'm afraid we (I) tried to do 
too many things with it : we have no chance to succeed.

So I think we can :
* go back to previous version
* apply TemplateEncoding patch
* apply the tmpl_loop BIG_LOOP patch, that makes the templates much much 
   more easy to fix.
* reintroduce the management of authorities in npl (they were not 
working, a small javascript was missing)

I'm away for 3 days in a few hours, I won't do that before departure, 
but feel free to do the revert, i'll take care of re-applying patches on 
thursday/friday.


How/what can we do to use this failure as a lesson, to be sure we won't 
reproduce it another time ?
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