Hey Ken, On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Ken Lomax <ken@lomax.gen.nz> wrote:
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 10:08 +0200, Marijana Glavica wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 06:58:46PM +1200, Ken Lomax wrote:
I am reminded very much of a situation we had with hardware vs software many years ago with the hardware guys saying it was a software fault and the software guys saying it was a hardware fault.
Judging by the one and only reply to my request for help and no further response from my reply to that, it appears that I am looking at a koha vs perl/CPAN situation.
why do you insist on Fedora? use Debian and everything will work and also for Debian you can get more support here.
Thia is the problem with so many distros. I have been in this situation before with another challenge. Some distros are better at some things than others, but a major application that only supports one distro.......?????? If I change to debian, then i will have exactly the same problem with other services who support a different distro. As this is a small operation, I cannot afford a multitude of dedicated servers each running a different distro
I am a great supporter of OpenSource, but after spending so much time on koha (not only the previous four days-but in the considerable problems in past installs) it appears that it is time to cut my losses and just write my own application that will suit my purposes.
It really depends on what you need, but for the system like Koha you will spend few years of development and also lot of help from librarians, and than, around version 3 you will finally be satisfied with your architecture :).
I was hoping to solve my library problem with an existing application. It is not a full professional library application that is required here, but from the experience I have had with working installations I give my congratulations to developers for a good application. If I was running a professional full scale library with a dedicated server, then Koha would be a good choice.
However I have spent a total of well over 300 hours trying to get an installation that I am happy with. In hindsight I would have been well towards an application that would have served my needs if I had put that time into my own application rather than getting involved in Koha.
Well, IMO that's not a particularly helpful attitude; there are a lot of hard-working folks in this community, and we don't happen to know much about your favorite flavor of LInux. For what it's worth, I just discovered the following French document for how to install Koha on Fedora: http://www.sigb-libres.info/guide-installation-koha3-alpha-fedora-7 I'm investigating having it translated and added to INSTALL.redhat. Is that something you'd be willing to work on and contribute for RHEL? It'd be a shame to waste that 300+ hours :-) Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE CEO migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS