[Koha] official version (was : National holidays and other free days)

[Chris Cormack]

On 5/06/2007, at 9:00 PM, Tomasz Holdowanski wrote:

>
>>> Pity, since my library has overdue charges, proper (and  
>>> automatic) handling of holidays etc. would be very nice touch.
>> why is it a pity ?
>> Koha 3.0 is not that far : i've started deploying it in france (1  
>> librariy done, 3 to come soon), i'm working hard on fixing  
>> reported bugs. I hope that a public release can occur in september  
>> (although with probably some RC (Release Candidate) warnings)
>
> Unfortunately, I can`t wait till september, not to mention the  
> 'mainstream' version of Koha is rather unsuitable for Polish  
> libraries, mostly placed in old buildings, divided into branches  
> with separate locations, collections, desks, and sometimes  
> different borrowing and charging policies. I cooperate with  
> Wojciech Zatorski, who is working on a 'university' version,  
> heavily modified compared to the 'mainstream' one, but thought that  
> something as obvious as holiday handling would be already included  
> in 'standard' Koha. As I said before, there`s no need for a GUI, a  
> table with dates to skip and a couple lines of code would be plenty  
> enough :)
>
Hi

As paul said its in the rel_2_2 branch of cvs and in the HEAD, you  
are welcome to check the code out yourself and install it, if waiting  
for a new version of 2.2 or 3.0 won't do.

IE the code has all been written.

Chris
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