On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Joshua Brindle wrote:
What is the timeline for the authentication stuff? I've gone through some of the authentication stuff and it seems deeply embedded (ie: not modular) to do this right the authentication should be completely abstracted from the app and allow a simple drop in authentication replacement. If this were the case i'd happilly write the ldap stuff. Are there plans to modularize all this stuff? Thanks....
Yes, the plan is that once 2.0 is out and fairly stable, our next big task will be to refactor/rewrite koha into a more modular form which will be 2.1/2.2. Ideally, between now and 2.0.X, we'll continue to hone Koha, improves docs, and build a solid suite of tests. Then, we'll start working on Koha 2.1.0 using the infrastructure we've built up. -pate Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org
Joshua Brindle UNIX Administrator Southern Nazarene University
paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@free.fr> 01/15/03 03:27AM >>> Joshua Brindle a �crit:
Wow!, that would be the perfect thing to be in the installation docs :\ In fact, it's the perfect thing to test during the installation process. I'll fix this for 1.9.0 seriously, i didn't even think to check CPAN for the module, i assumed it was part of Koha. Thanks a lot...
Also, do you guys think that koha can handle my library? 90000 books, maybe a dozen librarians and a couple thousand patrons? I'd have to make it authenticate to LDAP rather that mysql but that should be trivial... Thanks again
Without any problems (if you don't plan to install it on a Pentium 100 server :-) ) About LDAP : others also ask for this. the management team plans to : * release 2.0 with authentification as it is, through mysql tables. * add differents auth methods in the 2.1 or 2.2 version -- Paul POULAINConsultant ind�pendant en logiciels libresresponsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)