Salvete! The cataloguing interface is one of the worst problems we currently face in getting folks to switch to Koha from my perspective. I'd say it's #2 after an installer, so I was very, very happy when both of those ideas were incorporated into the Google project request list. I'd cry tears of joy should either of those come to pass. I would definitely be curious about a cleaned up incorporation of MARCedit. It seems a natural match for Koha, even if you glorious devs you needs canabalise it at a lower level to port it on over to fully integrate it. (If that's even an option.) Again, I must express my undying gratitude to everyone contributing code. It's awesome. I can certainly say that I seem to be fielding more librarian questions than ever. When I first signed on, I'd get a couple Koha questions a month maybe. Now it's one or two a day - and my documentation is stale. Insane growth, guys. Thanks so much for making this happen! I hope I'm not a big whiner. Cheers, Brooke @ Hinsdale MA

On 3/16/07, Steven F. Baljkas <baljkas@mts.net> wrote:

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-- and I have been wondering for a while if what Terry Reese had accomplished with MARCEdit's text-based editor might somehow be "incorporated"/"integrated" into Koha.

In my experience, in order to run MARCEdit in Linux you need to use Mono (and even then I found it not stable). Some folks have reservations about using Mono because Microsoft may use any patents on C# against Mono and Linux, though after the patent agreement between Microsoft and Novell (where the lead developer of Mono works), Novell customers are protected. I don't know where to stand on the Mono controversy, but it's something to consider. I would not like to see a Mono app be the main MARC editor for Koha, though I'd be happy if other folks had it as an option, because it is a really good MARC editor.

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