[Koha-zebra] [Fwd from koha-devel]: Worries about zebra

[Thomas D]

7 July 2005


I hope Windows users would not be lost by the change to Zebra.

What possibilities would there be to upgrade their systems?

Nothing should prevent the client web browser from running on a Windows
system.  Data can always be backed up to a Windows system.

A Unix system might be installed at their site for actually running Koha. 
It could be administered remotely if on site experience was lacking.

A Unix system might be hosted off site for actually running Koha.  It could
be administered at the off site location or remotely.

Certainly, there would be issues to be resolved but the advantage from Zebra
would be well worth the effort and is not being undertaken lightly.

It would, however, be nice if the Event module and other software could be
installed on a wider range of systems.  Apparently OSX is also problematic
for the event module.


Thomas D


Quoting Stephen Hedges <shedges at skemotah.com> :
> ---------------- Beginning of the original message ------------------
> 
> I think Tümer makes a very good point here.  I would hate to
> adopt zebra
> and then lose the entire Windows market!  It seems to me we
> should address
> this concern before we discuss Paul's (excellent!) plan for
> adopting
> zebra.
> 
> Having said that, I am going to make a comment about Paul's
> (excellent!)
> plan for adopting zebra.  :D
> 
> The biggest problem IMHO with the current MARC editor is the
> l-o-n-g time
> it takes to process a record.  An external MARC editor may
> help, but
> couldn't we also convert the internal MARC editor so it
> processes new
> records in batches?  (I think modification of records could
> still be done
> in real time.)  The editor could build an iso2709 file
> containing several
> records, instead of just one record, and then use something
> like
> bulkmarcimport to load them.
> 
> Stephen
> 
> Tümer Garip said:
> > Hi Paul,
> > I could not post it to koha-devel. So I am sending this to
> you
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tümer Garip [mailto:tgarip at neu.edu.tr]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 5:00 PM
> > To: 'koha-devel at lists.sourceforge.net'
> > Subject: FW: Worries about zebra
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tümer Garip [mailto:tgarip at neu.edu.tr]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 10:07 AM
> > To: 'koha-devel at lists.sourceforge.net'
> > Subject: Worries about zebra
> >
> > My concern is regarding Windows users. I have set up Zap on
> our Windows
> > system and
> > noted that I can not sort the results. This problrm is also
> reported on
> > their mailing list. The problem lies
> > in Zebra requiring TCL to sort and the available zap module
> not compiled
> > with TCL.
> > I have tried compiling a new zap module with TCL but in
> vain. It seems
> > some other people tried the same but not succesful
> > either.
> >
> > So the question is if we move to zebra (which I hope we do)
> will Koha
> > still be usable on windows platforms?
> >>From bugzilla mails it looks there is quite a lot of windows
> users.
> >
> > Up till now only the Z3950 client on koha did not work for
> windows users
> > but that we could overcome by using external clients.
> > But with this move we have to be certain whether koha will
> work with
> > windows platform to be able to stay with koha.
> >
> > Regards
> > Tumer
> 
> -- 
> Stephen Hedges
> Skemotah Solutions, USA
> www.skemotah.com  --  shedges at skemotah.com
> 
> 
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