IRC log for #koha, 2006-02-17

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11:05 kados morning folks
11:15 _hdl_ morning kados ?
11:15 kados _hdl_: guess afternoon for you :-)
11:16 _hdl_ yep :)
11:16 I looked for a use of purchaseordernumber but couldnot get it.
11:16 Do you know hwat it is used for  ?
11:22 kados yes
11:22 a purchase order is used by a library to allocate funds for a specific purpose
11:22 before actually paying
11:22 it also acts as a reference point between a contract and an invoice
11:22 and a check
11:23 so someone wonders 'what is this check for made out to LibLime'
11:23 they can see the purchase order
11:23 then check the contract and invoices with the same purchase order
11:23 does that make sense?
11:44 _hdl_ Yes but in Koha, there is no use of this field.
11:45 As I read you, this field would act as an internal field for basket research.
11:45 Do I understand correctly ?
12:13 kados hmmm
12:13 I think it is mainly for budget-base acquisitions
12:13 s/base/based/
12:14 so when a library makes a purchase for books
12:14 they create a purchase order
12:14 with a purchase order number
12:14 which is used by the library to track the purcahse
12:15 if you write a mail to koha-devel I'm sure Stephen can answer your question better as he served as NPL's clerk for some time
12:35 _hdl_ shedges : I am wondering how and where purchaseordernumber is used for in Koha.
12:35 Seems never used in my code.
12:35 But what was it used for ?
12:35 Kados seemed to say you helped Katipo with Acquisitions ?
12:36 (see logs today)
12:36 shedges most libraries here have to have a "purchase order" before they can buy things.
12:36 It's just a paper form, usually signed by the treasurer and the director
12:37 it says that the purchase has been approved, that the library has enough money to pay for it, that the administration is aware of the order.
12:38 Auditors look to be sure each invoice was pre-approved by a purchase order.
12:39 So as orders arrive, they are usually matched with the corresponding purchase order.
12:39 _hdl_ But is invoice linked to a parcel you receive or to an order ?
12:39 (SHOULD be both. ;) in ideal world.)
12:40 I am asking it because you say purchase order is a way to approve invoice BEFORE paying it.
12:48 kados shedges any comment ?
12:50 shedges the invoice is linked to each shipment
12:51 the purchase order is linked to each order
12:51 one purchase order can have several invoices
12:51 for example, I order 10 books, using one purchase order
12:51 seven of the books are shipped (with an invoice) but three are backordered (out of stock)
12:52 the three come later, on a separate invoice
12:52 so I have one purchase order, one order, two shipments and two invoices
13:06 _hdl_ I understand.
13:08 But I am wondering if it is possible to manage all these things at the moment, and keep a history of parcels arrived.
13:09 Becaus if many parcels comes for one order, they will overwrite the with the latest input.
13:10 shedges ahh
13:10 _hdl_ aqorderdelivery was maybe desinged for this purpose.
13:10 But I wonder.
13:25 paul hello all
13:25 kados around ?
13:40 shedges hi paul
13:40 paul hello stephen.
13:40 shedges I think he is on a conference call right now
13:40 (should be done soon)
13:40 paul ok, i'll leave in around 30mn
13:40 hoping i'll catch him
13:43 kados paul: you still here?
13:43 paul yes
13:43 I have some bad news, posted a few minuts ago on koha-devel...
13:43 kados opactest.liblime.com is running head and searches work!
13:44 paul it seems that DBI::mysql and utf8 are NOT friends at all.
13:44 kados hasn't come through yet
13:44 paul we have a major problem...
13:44 kados yikes!
13:44 paul copying some links :
13:44 kados do we need to move to postgres?
13:44 :-)
13:44 paul http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/654
13:44 http://lists.mysql.com/perl/3714
13:44 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?[…]1970179409036&w=2
13:44 http://lists.mysql.com/perl/3006?f=plain
13:45 in fact, they CAN be friend, but through 2 changes :
13:45 * bug DBD::mysql maintainer to have the fix included. Would require an official release, an upgrade of DBD::mysql, but it's a better solution in the long term.
13:45 * modify EVERY SQL query to Encode::decode_utf8() every value. A quite huge task !
13:45 kados hmmm
13:45 why do we need utf-8 in the mysql db?
13:45 paul (unless i'm missing something, & believe me, I really expect it !)
13:46 kados don't we just need it for the bibliographic data?
13:46 paul of course, if we want to be utf8 compliants
13:46 kados I don't think we need it in mysql
13:46 I think we can just encode as utf-8 before reaching the template
13:46 meaning all the browser sees is utf-8
13:47 ahh ...
13:47 paul that would be a poor solution I think. For example LDAP is utf-8 by default. Thus, for libraries using ldap & koha, the borrowers names have a strange look.
13:47 kados I see ... borrower names is a problem
13:47 forgot about those
13:47 hmmm
13:48 paul EMN has the problem & accept it, but only because I told "3.0 will be unicode" !
13:48 kados is there a fix for DBD::mysql?
13:48 paul (one of the 4 links)
13:48 kados (can we patch our local installations until it's released)
13:48 paul except it seems the patch is quite old, and was never released :-(
13:48 kados hmmm
13:49 I am happy to send an email to the maintainer
13:49 explaining our situation and asking him for advice
13:49 if he's not able/willing to fix it
13:49 it looks like we'll have to modify our SQL
13:49 if you describe to me how to do this I'll be happy to be the grunt man
13:50 so ... I'll await your email on koha-devel
13:50 you can rest easy tonight :-)
13:50 thd paul: have you looked at my SQL and quoting proposal?
13:50 paul it's quite simple : every time you fetch something, add a Encode::decode_utf8()
13:50 kados thd: good point this might be a good opportunity to apply that
13:50 paul thd : I saw it, but could not read it completly yet.
13:51 but still in "unread" status.
13:51 kados paul: unless you object, I think I'm going to have stephen add it to the coding guidelines
13:51 paul: thd's proposal that is
13:52 paul kados : if the maintainer can't include it, then we will have to change coding guidelines. Except that such a fix will enforce mySQL-only copatibility
13:52 thd paul: the identifier quoting part is the most important aspect for the short term
13:52 paul because other DBD::XXX don't suffer this problem it seem.
13:52 thd : I think i'll agree with your proposal.
13:52 kados paul: yep
13:52 paul thus the best solution from far would be to have the fix integrated !
13:52 kados paul: I'm actually seriously considering moving LibLime's future dbs to postgres
13:53 paul imho, that would :
13:53 kados paul: which is based on ingres, one of the best SQL dbs ever created
13:53 paul * delay koha 3.0
13:53 * be a problem for libraries using Koha 2.2 when they will migrate.
13:54 kados (I don't mean that mysql will be excluded, only that I want to create support for postgres)
13:54 thd paul: my proposal is only for placeholder code as SQL code is newly created or modified.
13:54 kados (and probably not for 3.0, I'm thinking 3.1 or 3.2)
13:55 (many large libraries would never go with a solution based on mysql ... with good reason i think)
13:55 thd paul: this would make it much easier to add flavour specific code later.
13:56 paul: the quoting aspect is to use My SQL specific back quotes for the default MySQL code.
13:58 paul: aside from identifier quoting needed already, marketing should be the significant motivator.
14:00 _hdl_: are you creating a parallel order package management system to that of normal acquisitions?
14:00 paul I hope not !!!
14:01 thd paul: what is he doing then?
14:01 paul I asked him to provide some tools to improve recievings, not rewritte it !
14:01 i'm afraid he is doing too much.
14:02 _hdl_ I am not rewriting it.
14:02 thd paul: every task tends to become too much after a closer look at the problem :)
14:02 paul hdl : ouf ;-)
14:03 I just wanted him to provide some facilities to see all recieves.
14:03 _hdl_ Just tryJust trying to well understand what has been done.
14:03 paul hdl : I know that we have a problem when a recieve is partial.
14:03 thd _hdl_: are you writing this 2.X also?
14:03 _hdl_ yes.
14:03 paul but there is no simple solution to this problem
14:03 _hdl_ First for 2.2.X
14:04 kados bbiab
14:04 paul we have to create a new table.
14:04 bye kados. i wont be here tomorrow.
14:04 but friday yes
14:04 thd _hdl_: I am happy about the first and would want to give you as much assistance as I can for that.
14:05 _hdl_: you do know that normal acquisitions is still currently broken.
14:07 _hdl_: chris ran out of time to fix it all for 2.X and made some uncommitted New Zealand specific shortcut fixes for a Katipo 2.X customer.
14:12 _hdl_: I am also interested in the issue of checking in multiple items for automatically adding them to the database with pregenerated barcodes rather than manually manipulating the item editor each time.
14:13 s/checking in/adding to the items for the biblio upon receipt/
14:13 s/upon receipt/upon unpacking/
14:14 _hdl_ Just typing in barcodes with a space.
14:14 thd _hdl_: I did not know.  Is that how it is meant to work?
14:15 good evening _hdl_ and paul.
14:15 paul I leave too.
14:15 thd _hdl_: will you be about tomorrow?
14:16 paul_away (I think he should)
14:16 _hdl_ yes
14:18 thd hdl_away: I will  try to sleep earlier today and rise earlier tomorrow or stay awake forever.
18:59 kados paul_away: you around?
19:47 russ jo you about6?
19:47 oops wrong channel
22:07 hi jo
22:07 yep
22:07 pez hello
22:07 : )
22:07 russ hi pez
22:18 audrey yes
22:24 kados _d1099 at C4/Biblio.pm line 158.
22:24 ZOOM error 224 "ES: immediate execution failed" (addinfo: "update_record failed") from diag-set 'Bib-1'
23:04 chris actually koha might handle 13 now, lemme check
23:05 yep we handle up to 14
23:15 kados er?
23:15 chris: is that a joke?
23:16 chris sorry was talking in hlt
23:16 and then changed channels without noticing :)
23:17 14 in the isbn field
23:17 (13 char isbns are coming out soon)
23:17 was jsut checking how big 2.2 would handle
23:21 kados ahh
23:22 so the thing is ... I'm getting this error when I try to import records
23:22 this is line 158 of biblio.pm:
23:22 warn "zebra_create : $biblionumber =".$record->as_formatted;
23:22 chris didnt we fix that the other day?
23:22 kados no
23:23 chris im sure we were importing ok werent we?
23:23 kados well ... it died on me
23:23 and I assumed that was because it had finished
23:23 chris ahh i imported 3000 ok .. maybe i better check again
23:23 kados but I don't think that was why it died
23:24 I can make a 135M MARC file available to you if you want it
23:24 it's from a dynix system ... one of LibLime's new clients
23:24 chris ooh
23:25 yeah pop it up somewhere and drop me an email with a url
23:25 kados k
23:25 chris so when im home i can take a look
23:26 kados k
23:28 sent
23:28 chris cool
23:29 so whats the actual error its throwing?
23:30 i think its scrolled out of my scroll buffer
23:37 kados I think I found it
23:38 this client sent me two marc files
23:38 the first one had some errors in it
23:38 and that's the one that is thowing errors for us
23:38 I'll send you the link to the one that's been indexing for a bout a minute now
23:39 chris sweet
23:39 yeah we need nicer error handling for zebra ... that traps the error and reports abck nicely
23:40 kados yep
23:40 ok ... same link as before
23:40 chris cool
23:41 kados I wonder if there's an equiv to select count(*) in zebra
23:41 chris it might actually be MARC::File
23:41 that dies
23:41 when it tries to render the marc
23:41 either way, nicer error reports are needed
23:41 kados yep
23:41 chris hmm bound to be something like that
23:42 kados whatever it was, it required manual editing of the MARC
23:42 chris you can do do a search that will find everything, and then count the results
23:42 kados wonder what search that would be
23:42 chris  my $rs = $Zconn->search($q);
23:42        my $numresults=$rs->size();
23:43 kados shoot
23:43 it just borked again
23:43 chris but yeah, i wonder what $q needs to be :)
23:43 ok, it should report and skip
23:43 i reckon
23:44 report a bad record, and then continue on
23:44 or say
23:44 bad record, skip and continue y/n
23:44 kados that makes sense
23:45 chris fatal errors should only be things like zebra dying
23:45 kados opac-detail is 500ing on me
23:45 is there stuff you haven't committed?
23:46 chris switch marc off
23:46 in system pref
23:46 and it should work
23:46 marc display isnt finished yet
23:47 tho why they opac tries to display marc im not sure :)
23:49 kados it's actually set to 'normal'
23:49 chris the marc on or off?
23:49 can you set it to normal?
23:49 i thought it was just on or off
23:50 kados log has:
23:50 [Wed Feb 15 20:08:07 2006] [error] [client 70.106.188.196] Undefined subroutine &C4::Biblio::MARCfind_MARC​bibid_from_oldbiblionumber called at /home/koha/testing/koha/op​ac/cgi-bin/opac-detail.pl line 82., referer: http://opactest.liblime.com/cg[…]ntains&value=test
23:50 chris ah yep, marc is still on
23:50 kados preferences say:
23:50 Define the default view of a biblio. Can be either normal, marc or isbd
23:50 chris naw not that one
23:50 that doesnt work :)
23:51 kados gotcha
23:51 hey, stuff's even displaying
23:51 chris :)
23:51 kados http://opactest.liblime.com/cg[…]etail.pl?bib=1570
23:51 chris sweet
23:51 kados nice job chris!
23:52 chris yeah it should jsut drop in for 2.2.5 too ... paul did most of it
23:52 havent got there yet
23:52 kados right
23:52 chris its fetching from koha tables at the mo
23:53 kados there's still data in the koha tables?
23:55 chris well there will need to be at least skeletons in items, with at least barcode and itemnumber
23:55 there is nothing in the marc_word table though
23:55 thats all in zebra
23:56 currently SearchMarc.pm is a drop in replacement
23:57 as Search.pm gets bigger more stuff dissapears from the db
23:57 make sense?
23:57 kados yea makes sense
23:57 chris so it will always be workingish .. just slowly working more and more from zebra
23:58 kados I'm not clear whether my contractual obligations are fulfilled yet :-)
23:58 well, after items is done
23:58 chris once i have a nice, i have a barcode
23:58 give me all the info i need
23:58 routine in Search.pm then 99% of the biblio info in koha will no longer be needed
23:59 kados gotcha
23:59 chris but if i take it out now, circ will break
23:59 kados yep
23:59 chris the good news is
00:00 the stuff on the first search results page is fetched from zebra
00:00 the detail.pl touchses koha tables
00:01 but i think ill leave that, get my search-test.pl going
00:01 and then get my get_record() going
00:01 kados sweet
00:01 chris and then opac-detail.pl should be easy
00:02 it seems to be clicking into placce
00:02 kados excellent ...
00:02 so I can hack on the import problem
00:03 chris cool
00:03 kados any ideas for how to make it 'skip' a record?
00:03 rather than just dying?
00:03 chris wrap the bit that is dying
00:03 in an eval { };
00:03 then do an
00:03 kados (it looks like it's dying with the ->as_formatted method
00:03 chris if ($@){
00:03 kados k
00:03 chris print out some error message
00:03 }
00:03 and it will keep on running
00:04 but at least grizzle about the error
00:04 kados k
00:04 chris it might just die on the next bit :)
00:05 i think its probably dying because $record doesnt exist
00:05 so maybe before the ->as_formatted
00:05 do an if ($record){
00:05 all the stuff it does with record
00:05 } else {
00:06 print "record wasnt set .. error woop woop etc";
00:06 }
00:06 kados actually ... I should probably write to a file
00:06 chris i think marc::record couldnt make a record, and then we try to use it, but its doesnt exist
00:06 kados cause the output's going by way to fast to catch that
00:07 chris yeah, or pipe to a file
00:07 when you run
00:08 kados piping's easier :-)
00:08 chris :)
00:08 kados ok ... running now
00:08 chris ideally
00:09 we should hand the error back
00:09 so that the calling program can deal with it
00:09 rather than printing it in biblio.pm
00:09 then bulkmarcimport.pl could print it out with the count, so you know what marc record is duff
00:10 and acquisitions could pass it to a template etc
00:10 kados yep
00:10 makes sense
00:11 chris ok, gonna go sort out some more bugs from my bugzilla list, catchya later
00:11 kados later
00:22 thd kados: are you still there?
00:28 kados thd: yep
00:29 thd kados: I committed a new version of SearchMarc.pm to HEAD.
00:30 kados: I have a separate rel_2_2 checkout and tried to commit a rel_2_2 version.
00:31 kados: I aborted that commit when the log was showing me that I was about to commit a modification of every file in the koha branch.
00:32 kados: the file dates of my rel_2_2 checkout seem right so what could be wrong.
00:32 ?
00:33 kados: I had tested the rel_2_2 cvs commit with my local rysync archive of the Koha CVS tree.
00:34 kados ?
00:34 what did the new version contain?
00:35 thd kados: Quick fix for functional bug in getMARCsubjects to avoid returning values that
00:35 vary between different uses of the same authorised subject heading causing
00:35 linked subject searches from the detail view to fail.  Other presentation fixes
00:35 within getMARCsubjects.
00:38 audrey kados: know much MARC tag designation?
00:39 what is difference between 852 subfield h and 852 subfield k?
00:39 kados audrey: thd would be a better one to answer that
00:39 audrey ok. thd?
00:40 do you know what the finer differences are?
00:40 852 is location according to http://www.loc.gov/marc/biblio[…]hold.html#mrcb852
00:40 kados chris: whenever you get back, it still died
00:40 chris: even with the eval
00:41 audrey thd: but what is difference between subfields h and k?
00:41 thd audrey: $k is a prefix like JUV for juvenile; $h is the base call number without the cutter number or possible location  suffix.
00:42 audrey and m is the location suffix or the cutter?
00:44 thd $i is the cutter; $m is the uncommon suffix.
00:44 audrey thanks! really helps my understanding.
00:45 thd: what does a suffix look like?
00:45 the $m one?
00:46 thd audrey: http://lwww.loc.gov/marc/ has much documentation but little explanation.
00:46 audrey i am seeing that
00:47 do you know a better, more explanitory website?
00:49 thd audrey: 852
00:49 ##$aDLC$bc-G & M$hG3820 1687$i.H62$mVault
00:50 audrey so the specific room or branch described right in the call number?
00:50 not used my many libraries, eh?
00:50 thd audrey: try a cataloguing textbook.  There is a good one by Chen.
00:50 audrey right, but I am not near any cataloguing testbooks right now.
00:51 thd audrey: $m is seldom ever used in my experience.
00:51 audrey ok, so not to worry too much about it.  cool.
00:51 good.  now i know what it is, can explain it to others, and know not to stress about it.
00:52 thanks:)
00:52 thd audrey: There is a good brief guild to MARC on the LC website but it does not have the detail for which you are looking.
00:52 kados thd: following up on our discussion about possible writing opportunities for you
00:52 thd: would you be interested in preparing 'fact sheets' for Koha?
00:53 thd audrey: Years ago I did find the notes for a library science class online but I have no idea now.
00:54 audrey thd: that's cool. may try to find other marc sites later.
00:54 thd kados: what would a 'fact sheet' as distinct from a 'lies sheet' contain?
00:54 kados thd: :-)
00:56 thd kados: I had thought about an approach for writing for the first issue of the LibLime newsletter.
00:57 kados thd: yea?
00:57 thd: I'm all ears
00:58 thd kados: I was late for my dentist appointment thinking about it
01:00 kados thd: :-)
01:00 thd: so ... what's your idea?
01:00 thd kados: tentative title, "Take back control of your library systems"
01:02 kados: The principles of free software freedom and there application to libraries with special consideration of the issue that there are very few free software projects for large complete systems as opposed to tools for building them.
01:02 s/there/their/
01:03 s/the first one
01:05 actually that would only match the first one :)
01:07 kados: what do you mean by Koha 'fact sheets'?
01:09 kados thd: well ... detailed descriptions of features maybe?
01:11 thd kados: Why did "cvs -z3 -d thd@cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/sources/koha commit $Log -r rel_2_2 koha
01:11 " want to commit everything in my rel_2_2 checkout when I only modified one file?
01:11 kados what you wanted to do
01:11 was just do
01:11 cvs commit filename
01:11 you don't need to commit the whole tree
01:11 just the file you changed
01:12 thd kados: cvs commits only the modified files automatically.
01:14 kados: that code worked fine to my local copy of the Koha CVS tree downloaded with rsync.
01:15 kados rsync is your problem
01:15 I bet
01:16 thd kados: my CVS checkout used CVS directly from savannah I hope :)
01:17 kados thd: looks like your changes killed my opac search :-)
01:17 http://opactest.liblime.com/cg[…]ha/opac-search.pl
01:17 thd kados: Well, I will check that again.
01:17 kados wait
01:18 yea, something weird happening
01:18 thd kados: Head does not work on Koha 2.X.  You need my rel_2_2 file.
01:18 kados [Wed Feb 15 21:34:52 2006] [error] [client 70.106.188.196] ZOOM error 10012 "CQL transformation error" (addinfo: "Illegal or unsupported index (addinfo=\xb0\x9e\xdf\blastic)") from diag-set 'ZOOM', referer: http://opactest.liblime.com/cg[…]ha/opac-search.pl
01:18 ahh ... you changed 2.2
01:18 so this problem is unrelated then
01:19 i see
01:19 it's a CQL parsing error
01:19 can't handle multiple subject search terms yet
01:20 well any multiple terms it seems
01:20 thd kados: yes, I did not break anything that was not already broken.  I only fixed a few things that will give you a different appearance in every detail view.
01:21 kados thd: could you be more specific?
01:22 thd kados: I dealt with the problem you had with Sears in 650 $2.
01:23 kados I thought we already had a fix for that?
01:23 thd kados: Also, there was a line missing after the while loop that prevented the trailing " -- " from being removed from the last 6XX.
01:25 kados thd: but searches were working fine now
01:25 thd kados: And other improper extra " --  ".  I just realised that I may have not caught all possible cases, but certainly all that I have seen.
01:25 kados: that fix was never committed.
01:27 kados: the other issues were presentation problems that did not affect searching but looked bad on every detail view to have a trailing " -- " after the end of the last subject heading.
01:27 kados thd: I see
01:28 thd s/looked bad/had a poor appearance/
01:28 kados OK ... I'll try those out on a working system sometime soon
01:36 thd kados: that did not work, I killed my connection to be extra certain of not corrupting the whole Koha CVS tree.
01:37 kados: how do I commit a single file or small group of files?  More importantly, what is the problem rsync is not involved this time for certain.
01:38 s/problem/problem?/
01:41 chris: not too take you from your important work but why would CVS insist that I modified the whole rel_2_2 checkout when I only changed one file?
01:41 kados to commit a file just type:
01:41 cvs commit filename
01:41 if you want to commit a small group of files inside a directory:
01:41 cvs commit *
01:41 from within the directory
01:41 but don't do atomic commits
01:41 like cvs commit koha
01:41 :-)
01:42 thd kados: How will CVS know where to put the file?
01:42 kados: What are atomic commits?
01:42 kados cvs commit koha
01:42 is an atomic commit
01:42 thd: cvs just knows
01:43 thd: based on where it is in your repo
01:43 thd: all that info is stored in the CVS directory
01:43 thd: inside every repo directory
01:44 thd kados: am I supposed to remove the unmodified files.  CVS is just supposed to be able to just know the deference.
01:44 kados no don't need to remove anything
01:45 you can read some docs on how to use cvs on the savannah site
01:45 if you have usage questions
01:47 thd kados: I have read all the CVS docs and while I do not have extensive practise of usage I studied the docs from several CVS systems.  I am using just CVS and it is supposed to know what is modified and what is not.
01:49 kados: I had failed to understand a point about log messages a couple of months ago before my first commit.  chris put me straight about automatic logging.
01:52 kados: You are saying that I have to preserve the directory tree within which a single file or maybe even more than one file with the same name in different locations would be are you not?
01:54 kados: If that question bores you and you are still awake, who is meant to read the 'fact sheets'?
03:14 audrey Chris, hi
03:18 chris hi audrey
03:18 audrey have a moment
03:18 ?
03:19 chris sure
04:52 |hdl| hi
04:53 thd hello |hdl|
04:53 hdl could you sleep a little ?
04:54 (non slleping work is no good.
04:54 thd hdl: I hope to sleep but I have been testing a problem committing to rel_2_2
04:55 hdl Search.marc ?
04:55 thd yes
04:55 hdl (I saw you committed sthg.
04:55 what kind of problem ?
04:57 thd I have the same code modifying rel_2_2 but when I go to commit CVS presumes that I have modified every file in rel_2_2
04:58 hdl: I have tested my CVS arguments with no problem using a local copy of the source tree.
04:58 hdl maybe you have a recursive commit on your directory ? ?
04:59 This IS indeed a problem ?
04:59 chris you can just commit one file thd
04:59 cvs commit path/filename
04:59 thd hdl: Yes, that is the default but CVS is supposed to know the difference between what I have modified and what is the same.
04:59 chris eg cvs commit C4/SearchMarc.pm
05:00 you can go cvs diff filename to see what cvs thinks is different too
05:01 thd chris would that be actually cvs commit koha/C4/SearchMarc.pm
05:01 ?
05:01 chris well im normally in koha/
05:02 where koha is my cvs checkout
05:02 so cd koha
05:02 cvs commit C4/SearchMarc.pm
05:03 you could go cvs diff someotherfile .. to see why cvs thinks it is different
05:04 thd chris: I will try checking the diff return for all the files in rel_2_2 now :)
05:11 osmoze hello
05:13 hdl hi cris
05:13 chris
05:13 Hav you seen the logs ?
05:14 Trying to dive into acquisitions, one more time :)
05:15 chris ahh, ill probably be doing some work on acquisitions for 3.0 in the next few weeks
05:15 on the full acquistions anyway
05:54 hdl chris : what are you planning to do ?
06:03 osmoze do you know if it's possible to transcript unimarc to usmarc ?
06:04 thd hdl: I assume chris intends to fix what is still broken.  I am curious about what aspects exactly chris knows to remain broken.
06:06 osmoze: I would be very pleased if you could find the correct files for doing that.
06:07 osmoze: http://www.bl.uk/services/bibl[…]ic/usemarcon.html
06:08 osmoze: what is your purpose for conversion exactly, particularly why do you want to convert into USMARC?
06:10 osmoze: paul wrote a rough conversion for MARC 21 to UNIMARC.
06:11 osmoze in fact, we have to send our "catalogue" to departemental librairy, but we are in unimarc and they are in USMARC. My question is that possible to send our "catalogue"
06:11 (excuse my poor english ^^)
06:11 thd osmoze: paul was not using USEMARCON.
06:13 osmoze: Do you really want to convert into UNIMARC from USMARC?  USMARC -> UNIMARC ?
06:15 osmoze no, it's the opposite
06:15 UNIMARC --> USMARC
06:15 thd osmoze: some libraries have the configuration files for USEMARCON.  If you find a library that has them, please let me know.
06:15 osmoze k
06:16 in fact it's to have an interoptability KOHA/ Multilys
06:17 thd osmoze: That is a big part of the holy grail.
06:17 osmoze lol :)
06:18 thd osmoze: contact some people at BNF or other large libraries about configuration files for USEMARCON to do that.
06:20 osmoze: Someone has the files somewhere already.  You could make your own but that is a nontrivial task with the special syntax for USEMARCON.
06:21 hdl osmoze : we could do that but on twodays work.
06:21 osmoze ok
06:22 hdl : c est a dire ?
06:22 thd osmoze: There is or was originally a proprietary version of USEMARCON that had configuration files not contained in the free version.  Find someone who is willing to share them or contact the original company about what leads they may have.
06:24 hdl: only two days?
06:24 osmoze thd>  french are good :p
06:25 hdl thd: I know His catalogue.
06:25 :)
06:26 thd hdl: you mean two days for the values he has in his catalogue.
06:28 hdl: I want a tool to convert all BNF etc. records as completely as possible into MARC 21 and the other way from LC etc.
07:14 |hdl| thd: sorry : still working remotely on my computer.
07:14 you said you wanted a tool to convert BNF biblio to LIC.
07:14 s/LIC/LOC/
07:14 This is not two days owk.
07:15 s/owk/work/
07:15 They are by far much more complicated biblio.
07:16 And UNIMARC to MARC-21 is not a mathematical bijection.
07:17 So There must be choicesto be done. Generally it is done on a target-display basis.
07:18 We want this kind of information int this field.
07:18 When you have a well defined kind of biblio, it is wuite easy.
07:18 But with BNF it is truly a great deal.
07:18 thd: ???

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