[Koha-devel] Pending PDF::Reuse Release And Koha

[Chris Nighswonger]

That's great!

Thanks Mark.

Kind Regards,
Chris


On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Mark Tompsett <mtompset at hotmail.com> wrote:

>   Greetings,
>
> With Robin’s DEB, I’ve successfully done steps 1 through 5.
>
> GPML,
> Mark Tompsett
>
>  *From:* Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger at foundations.edu>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 03, 2014 12:53 PM
> *To:* koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
> *Subject:* [Koha-devel] Pending PDF::Reuse Release And Koha
>
>       I have rolled a pending PDF::Reuse release which incorporates
> several methods which I wrote to accommodate the label and patroncard tools
> in Koha back in 2009. I had hoped these would be included in PDF::Reuse
> before now; however, they were not. The module appears to have been
> abandoned by the original author, and I was able to be listed as a
> co-maintainer.
>
> I have tested these changes on Koha's current head, and they appear to
> work fine. This is an official call for testing these changes prior to my
> releasing the new version of PDF::Reuse.
>
> Since these changes directly affect Koha, they have the potential to
> affect current and future stable installs. Below is a link to a dev release
> of PDF::Reuse which contains the proposed changes. Attached is a patch
> formatted against the head current at the time of this email. Please do the
> following:
>
> 1. Upgrade PDF::Reuse to 0.35_01.
> 2. Run Koha's non-DB dependent test suite. You should notice some
> non-fatal warnings about the redefinition of one or two subs in PDF::Reuse.
> This should not affect the functionality of the tools for the end user.
> 3. Verify the functionality of the related tools.
> 4. Apply the attached patch.
> 5. Re-run Koha's non-DB dependent test suite. You should note no warnings
> related to PDF::Reuse.
> 6. Re-verify the functionality of the related tools.
> 7. Reply to the list with any issue which arise.
>
> After we're happy with the changes, I will submit the attached patch to
> Koha via normal channels for QA, etc.
>
> This conversation will serve as QA for the proposed PDF::Reuse release.
> There are many things which could be different about the code in
> PDF::Reuse. This release is not the time to deal with these, so please keep
> it to show-stopping problems. There will be plenty of time to "fix" other
> things later. (That said, feel free to send along any thoughts directly to
> me.)
>
> Kind Regards,
> Chris
>
>
> http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/C/CN/CNIGHS/PDF-Reuse-0.35_01.tar.gz
>
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