Time Nick Message 15:54 kados chris around? 21:31 kados I know what you mean 01:29 jaredj has anyone tried to reimplement koha in another language? 01:29 jaredj or tried to do a huge refactoring? 01:31 kados Koha is multi-language ... what do you mean by 'refactoring'? 01:33 jaredj sorry i mean source language - not natural language 01:34 jaredj 'refactoring' is making changes to the code that don't result in changes of behavior 01:36 jaredj for example i like koha but i think the whole process of getting data from tables and sticking it into hashes isn't centralized enough 01:36 jaredj so i want to make a module that does that, and change all of the scripts to use it 01:37 jaredj or i like koha but i wish it were written in python, so i rewrite it 01:37 jaredj to have the same functionality and use the same database but be written in python 01:47 rach there have been a couple of people do that 01:47 rach but they basically re-released it as different software 01:48 jaredj you'd have to i guess 01:48 rach open book was one of those projects, it put Koha into PhP, but the process of doing that changed it so much, it wasn't really the same thing anymore 01:48 jaredj ah yes i forgot about that 01:48 rach and inevitabley they figured they could just make a few more mods, add some different features 01:48 rach and voila, a new product :-) 01:48 jaredj even with no mods it's still not koha 01:49 rach people have changed databases without problem, so used Oracle for example instead of mysql 01:49 rach but that's a bit different 01:49 jaredj that's nice. 01:49 jaredj yeah that's easier 01:49 jaredj sigh i'd kinda like to mess around with ruby objects rather than perl hashes 01:50 jaredj but i know i'd be the only one doing it 01:50 rach Pat was keen on Ruby 01:50 jaredj (i.e. the koha community would stay with koha and i haven't got a community) 01:50 jaredj heh ok mayyybe two of us :) 01:51 jaredj i think i'm in the rather rash stage of observing the way koha does things from the outside 01:52 rach sure 01:53 rach koha has been under pretty active development, adding lots of features etc 01:53 jaredj t 01:53 rach I would wait a bit before starting on a project like you're thinking of 01:53 jaredj oh don't worry 01:53 rach so that all the bugs etc are sorted, 01:54 rach rather than converting some duff stuff as well as the goodies 01:54 jaredj i'd rather help koha than fork off 01:55 jaredj speaking of help - the npl templates r0xx0r imo 01:55 jaredj only seen the opac yet tho 01:55 rach I haven't seen them 01:56 rach our installation isn't up and running yet 01:57 jaredj 2.2? 01:57 rach yep 01:58 jaredj i'm working on one right now 02:00 jaredj aw. they don't seem to be css-ful 02:06 rach ? 02:06 rach what the npl templates? 02:07 jaredj yes 02:08 jaredj i really like their layout - and their colors for that matter... 02:08 jaredj but i'll have to see just how much i can tweak the css templates. although i've seen a bug in them already 02:09 jaredj whoops, heh 02:09 jaredj the "suggest a purchase" link in the npl templates goes to NPL's site 05:43 rach bon jour paul 05:43 paul hello rach 05:43 paul good evening 05:43 rach good morning 05:43 rach how are things with you? 05:44 paul fine, thanks 05:44 paul (only 1 pb : i'm 37 since yesterday ;-) ) 05:49 rach woo 05:49 rach did you have a party? 05:49 paul we had a luch with friends. and today, my wife and me have planned a dinner without childrens. 05:50 paul that will be enough with a 3 months baby ;-) 05:55 rach :-) 05:55 rach that is a good present indeed 05:56 rach and I have a request to do a wee article for http://www.dlib.org 05:56 rach mind you I haven't heard of them 05:57 rach http://www.katipo.co.nz/ 05:57 rach http://www.katipo.co.nz/about-us/news/nr1105347306.shtml 05:57 rach I'll get that proofed and expanded out a bit 05:58 rach so you can thank your libraries would be good 05:58 paul what kind of quote ? 05:59 paul how many lines ? 05:59 rach 2 sentances 05:59 rach or do a paragraph and I can take something from it 06:00 paul OK, i'll send it today. If you don't have it in your mailbox, send me a mail. 06:00 rach thank you 06:00 rach much appreciated 06:00 rach have a good day paul :-) 06:00 paul have a good night. 06:01 rach cheers