[Koha-devel] using mysql dump of 3.9 in 3.8.6

2012-11-11 Thread Mohamed zalabany
i need to make down grade from 3.9 to 3.8.6 can i use the MySQL dump of data base to replace it in 3.8.6 or there will be differences between tow version in data base structure and what the important things i need to do or take care about when i does this operationthanks Mohamed El ZalabanyI

[Koha-devel] Field 001 auto-increment problem in 3.8.5

2012-11-11 Thread Paul
Our cataloguing frameworks (default, books) for tag 001 have under Constraints / Other Options / Plugin a script [callnumber_rev3.pl, one line changed from the Koha "standard" callnumber.pl] which includes this snippet: # If the textbox is empty, we return a simple incremented controlnumbe

[Koha-devel] Koha and MariaDB - lets switch and start testing

2012-11-11 Thread Mason James
hi Folks i am just sending out an email to encourage Koha developers to switch to MariaDB for their Koha dev/testing/QA work why? its highly probable MariaDB will be the database Koha switches to when MySQL explodes, (which might be quite soon, according to some) so… lets prepare for that situ

[Koha-devel] update Koha download pages, with some info for beginners

2012-11-11 Thread Mason James
hi Folks can we get some info the following 2 pages, recommending beginners to install Koha using the 'packages' method http://koha-community.org/download-koha/ http://download.koha-community.org/ it seems to me, these 2 pages are the first pages a beginner hits, when attempting to install Ko

Re: [Koha-devel] update Koha download pages, with some info for beginners

2012-11-11 Thread Liz Rea
+1 from me - the packages are mature enough at this point and well documented enough to encourage most users to use them instead of a tarball install. Liz On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Mason James wrote: > hi Folks > > can we get some info the following 2 pages, recommending beginners to inst

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha and MariaDB - lets switch and start testing

2012-11-11 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Mason James wrote: > hi Folks > > i am just sending out an email to encourage Koha developers to switch to > MariaDB for their Koha dev/testing/QA work > I've been singing this tune for awhile and am still all for it. :-) > fyi: 6 weeks ago, i switched to MariaD