Stroller wrote:
Agreed. Before I found anything that totally suited my needs I was going to go LAMP all the way. Why reinvent the wheel is one of the greatest questions of all.On 14 Jul 2008, at 13:06, CJoeB wrote:Eric Martin wrote:Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we are lending out to people so I figured this would be a good way to keep track. Since it's for personal use it doesn't have to be anything big. Preferably backended by MySQL as I already have a server running for MythTV and Amarok.I did a few eix searches for portage and came up empty handed, and sourceforge.net has a ton of stuff but I was wondering what other people use.Have you heard of Tellico. It's a collection manager that can be used for books, music, video ... whatever. It allows you to enter the name of the book, a graphic if you have one, rate the book and indicate whether or not it's a gift, how much you paid for it and if you have lent it out. It *is* in Portage.Some information: http://periapsis.org/tellico/The screenshots of this look really nice, however to me this seems like a really odd motivation for writing a program:I started developing it when I couldn't find a personal database program for KDE which didn't using a SQL backend.What's wrong with an SQL backend that needs you to re-invent the wheel? I'm not saying there's a better collection manager out there, or that the author's in the wrong for doing it the way he has. But it just seems a little odd, and I'd love for him to explain his reasons more fully.Stroller.
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