Re: [Koha-devel] Prepackaged perl distro

2008-07-18 Thread Rick Welykochy
Joe Atzberger wrote: > We do that for Koha's internal perl modules, and I think it makes sense > there, but I would be very against doing it for *external* > dependencies. It doesn't avoid entanglements with existing perl > installations, because if you have 5.10 installed (e.g. Ubuntu) you >

Re: [Koha-devel] Prepackaged perl distro

2008-07-18 Thread Joe Atzberger
> One solution is to use a different location for the set of Perl > modules used by Koha. This avoids any entanglements with existing > Perl installations on the box. It is a very clean soln :) > We do that for Koha's internal perl modules, and I think it makes sense there, but I would be very aga

[Koha-devel] RFC 3.2: Description translation

2008-07-18 Thread Eric Bégin
Hi all, The basic idea of this RFC is to add a translation mechanism for MARC field, MARC subfield and System Preference's descriptions. The mechanism would dynamically retrieve the description from a map structure based on the user's currently selected language, which is not possible at the m

Re: [Koha-devel] Prepackaged perl distro

2008-07-18 Thread Rick Welykochy
MJ Ray wrote: > Yes, and there are several ways to do it, including ones that I think > are called PAR and PPM, but they should be able to build on the work > we've done with Makefile.PL and they really need to be built on a > stable release. I will investigate PAR and PPM, whatever they are. I h

Re: [Koha-devel] Prepackaged perl distro

2008-07-18 Thread MJ Ray
Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > We cobbled together perl + all perl modules required. > > The virtual builder then simply installed perl and all the > perl modules we required. > > No CPAN. No failed makes. No mismatches. > > Can't the same be done for Koha? Yes, and there are se