Re: MARC::Record and pack_008

2004-09-01 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 05:13:18PM -0400, Jason Etheridge wrote: > Cool, thanks. :D I'll clean it up a bit and mail it to you. I'm likely > to churn through a lot of revisions before the month is up. When I > release this would it fall under the sway of the Artistic License (being > derivativ

Re: MARC::Record and pack_008

2004-09-01 Thread Jason Etheridge
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Re: MARC::Record and pack_008

2004-09-01 Thread Mark Jordan
Hi Ed and Andy, On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 08:33:55AM -0500, Ed Summers wrote: > One of Andy's guiding principles with MARC::Record was to keep it clean and > simple...which is another reason this sort of magical behavior isn't in > there. Which I totally appreciate. MARC::Record is substantially

Re: MARC::Record and pack_008

2004-09-01 Thread ALester
MARC::Record was started from scratch, entirely separate from MARC.pm, so it's not that that 008 functionality was "removed", but just that I never wrote it in in the first place. Andy -- Andy Lester Applications Manager Follett Library Resources [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MARC::Record and pack_008

2004-09-01 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:15:36PM -0400, Jason Etheridge wrote: > I'm not sure of the best way to package these. I know Ed has mentioned > that he's not a fan of the bibliographic specific methods in > MARC::Record, but I'm not well-versed in Perl OOP yet and couldn't > figure out how to subcl

Re: MARC::Record and pack_008

2004-09-01 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:02:08PM -0700, Mark Jordan wrote: > why did you remove this functionality -- because, as Jason suggests, > you're "not a fan of the bibliographic specific methods in > MARC::Record"? Yes, at the moment MARC::Record can pretty much be used with authority , holdings, clas

Re: MARC::Record and pack_008

2004-08-31 Thread Mark Jordan
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:52:17PM -0500, Ed Summers wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:39:13AM -0700, Mark Jordan wrote: > > When creating new records, do I have to construct all positions of 008 > > manually (specifically, 00-05 - Date entered on file)? Anything else I > > should know about, l

Re: MARC::Record and pack_008

2004-08-31 Thread Jason Etheridge
Ed Summers wrote: Yeah, if you want an 008 you have to make it yourself. MARC::Record will make no attempt to build an 008 automatically based on information in the leader. Hi guys, I've been using MARC::Record to help with these fixed fields and I've been creating functions like this: # 008/23 (

Re: MARC::Record and pack_008

2004-08-31 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:39:13AM -0700, Mark Jordan wrote: > When creating new records, do I have to construct all positions of 008 > manually (specifically, 00-05 - Date entered on file)? Anything else I > should know about, like 008's relationship to the record leader? Yeah, if you want an 0