[Koha-devel] New Feature: Improved Z39.50 Client

[Alex King]

Chris Cormack wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 07:39:49PM -0800, Joshua Ferraro said:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Tumer Garip has back-ported his improvements to the Z39.50 client to
>> dev_week and I have backported them to rel_2_2. Please update your
>> systems, test it out, and if everyone agrees and everything seems to be
>> working as you expect, I propose to release 2.2.7 with the bugfixes
>> applied since 2.2.6 as well as the MAJOR improvement to the Z39.50
>> client. 
>>
>>     
> Can we get the fixes for mysql 5 in there as well.
> They are small and harmless, no changes of the database, just a change
> in the koha.msyql. And a couple of edits in Search.pm and SearchMARC.pm
>
> If people are happy ill commit the fixes
>
> Chris
>
>   
I'd certainly be happy if the changes are as you say small and harmless, 
but there has been an opinion put out on the koha list based on 
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1089 that major 
changes are needed for mysql5 support.

To my mind there are two ways you could read the (non)resolution of that 
bug report. One is that there never was a problem in the areas the 
submitter was talking about, and he was fixing things that weren't 
broken.  The other is that there are complex and not understood problems 
with koha-2.2 and mysql5 and it's in the too hard basket, unless 
extensive work and testing is done.

I suspect the (2.2) release manager is in the latter camp as this bug 
report is referenced in the release notes of 2.2.6.

It's certainly a good thing to have a warning in the 2.2.6 release 
mentioning mysql5 incompatibility.  However, I think that bug report is 
not a good description the incompatibility.

My own experience has been that I have installed Koha 2.2.5 with mysql5, 
and it is (mostly) working, but I haven't tested it extensively enough 
to be sure.  What doesn't work (barcode printing) is I think a problem 
with the perl modules I have installed rather than the db.

Cheers,

Alex


PS. Update on Debian packaging:  I haven't done much, but I had trouble 
when trying to upgrade my 2.2.5 install to 2.2.6.  The upgrade script 
complained of missing perl modules even after I loaded the modules 
through CPAN.  I need to try a fresh install.