Instaling Koha -modifications upstream
Dear Koha Team I sent am email a little while ago to a koha member I hope it go through. Either way it dosen't matter. I was installing koha on Debian Sarge in Papua New Guinea without an internet connection. After Downloading Marc::record I was having problems with Barcode Generation (labels) and barcode Autogeneration on a non marc database. I have written the code so that Barcodes will be autogenerated for NON marc users (actually it was really simple I guess that there are not many non marc users.). I have also written (actually still rewriting barcodesGenerator.pl to work with libpdf::report). Here is what I have written. Do not ask me to use Subversion or any other program I cannot I only get 1 hr of Dial up access per fourtnight if lucky. I cannot use any coding program. Also load modules goes straight to add biblio in Non Marc while In marc it goes to a search. I have redone this so that on both it goes to a search (why is it changed for non marc? We want to see if the book is on the records too). All in all now that Koha is running it is a nice program but the install is redicous. If barcodesGenerator will only work with API2:PDF> 0.377 you must either package the library with the program or make this explicit. I could only find this out by looking at user bug logs. Either way I have rewritten the module for libpdf:report. If you add a system preference to choose between libpdf :report or the old API2 then both should function together nicely. Once my Library is compleated I will look at getting checkboxes for the Marc items when you want to use them. I think that this should help the marc configuration allot. If you have emailed me ill address those emails on a fourtnight after I have read them. Please provide feedback on if this code is useful or if I am wasting my time. Cheers\ Colin
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colmcd@optusnet.com.au