If I decide not to wait until 2.0-STABLE, and install Koha 1.x now, how much hassle am I in for when I upgrade to 2.0? (Assume I'm not tweaking the installation much, just setting up basic parameters and doing a bit of data entry.) I'm willing to wait for 2.0-STABLE if it's a good idea. Despite lurking on the list, I've never actually used Koha. Ben -- Email is packaged by intellectual weight, not volume. Some settling of contents may have occurred during transmission.
Ben, The "Stable" (1.x) and "Unstable" (2.x) branches really represent two very different types of library cataloging. The most notable difference is that the 2.x branch supports MARC. If you plan to use MARC it may make better sense to try out the "Unstable" branch for now; it's pretty usable, and most of the bugs are display-related rather than funcionality issues. An upgrade should be no problem when 2.0 is released. Alternatively, you could set up CVS and symlink the relevent directories so that with each check-out you have the latest bug fixes. Joshua On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:36:59PM -0700, Ben Ostrowsky wrote:
If I decide not to wait until 2.0-STABLE, and install Koha 1.x now, how much hassle am I in for when I upgrade to 2.0? (Assume I'm not tweaking the installation much, just setting up basic parameters and doing a bit of data entry.)
I'm willing to wait for 2.0-STABLE if it's a good idea. Despite lurking on the list, I've never actually used Koha.
Ben
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Ben Ostrowsky <sylvar@vaxer.net> wrote:
If I decide not to wait until 2.0-STABLE, and install Koha 1.x now, how much hassle am I in for when I upgrade to 2.0?
I think that we'll try to make it as hassle-free as we can and try to work with you to smooth out any bumps. Upgrading is not yet supported, but I think it needs to be there before we start making "Release Candidate" versions. The work to do it is underway, although after a week away I've forgotten exactly what work it was for now... ;-) With a little trickery, 1.x and 2.0pre2 or later may be installable alongside each other, by setting some variables before running the 2.x installer, at least on *n*x systems. I'm not sure if there are other version problems (perl modules etc) that will stop that working. Is anyone doing it? -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ jabber://slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Thought: Edwin A Abbott wrote about trouble with Windows in 1884
MJ Ray wrote:
Ben Ostrowsky <sylvar@vaxer.net> wrote:
If I decide not to wait until 2.0-STABLE, and install Koha 1.x now, how much hassle am I in for when I upgrade to 2.0?
I think that we'll try to make it as hassle-free as we can and try to work with you to smooth out any bumps. Upgrading is not yet supported, but I think it needs to be there before we start making "Release Candidate" versions. The work to do it is underway, although after a week away I've forgotten exactly what work it was for now... ;-)
With a little trickery, 1.x and 2.0pre2 or later may be installable alongside each other, by setting some variables before running the 2.x installer, at least on *n*x systems. I'm not sure if there are other version problems (perl modules etc) that will stop that working. Is anyone doing it?
nobody for instance. It should be katipo imho, as they are the most concerned. I have no libraries with 1.2, so i can't provide working migration scripts. however, the method would be : * run updatedatabase * import MARC parameters table * modify MARC parameters tables to fit your needs. * run $koharoot/marc/updatedb2marc.pl script. This script is UNTESTED. It should work in theory. but that's all. It fills MARC tables from non-MARC (1.2 tables) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)
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