Re: [Firefly-dev] my 2 cents

[firefly-dev]

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 18:45, address@hidden wrote:

> going off of marco's last msg, patrons are the library users, the guys
> and gals that walk in off the street or whatever and sign up with the
> library. 

ah ok, thanks

> i think we will create our own database using a constant xml format.
> this will make it easier to manipulate now and integration of plugins
> will be much simpler. 

you mean a sort of registry ? interesting...


> but i really dont want the patrons to be able to edit their account in
> any possible way without the assistance of staff, but if that is too
> much of a hassle then we an have them edit parts of their account. 

my idea is to give patrons the possibility to *view* all their data and
to edit *only* informations like e-mail or password or subscription to
mailing lists. Other informations can be edited only by the staff

> the automatic updating is a very good idea. but lets make it auto
> matically install, without asking, but tell the user its updating and
> to give it a few mins. 

yes I agree

> im all for the gui with of course text based possibilities. using perl
> as i am, Tk is a possibility, along with GLADE, but the latter has a
> whole new language to pick up before it can be used which may be more
> than its worth. 

is tk available on windows and mac ?

> lol i think you took that wrong. i think it was meant do WE, the
> programmers, need a chat room to discuss instead of implementing it
> into firefly. but that is a possibility.

ahahahah, ooops, sorry :)

> language wise, im not sure up to this point. perl works for me for
> now. Tk is giving me crap, but i guess i really need to learn it
> better before i can fully toss it out.

about the language I'm more oriented toward python, also because has
unicode supprt built-in and wxPython seems a nice project.
We can use both, I need to take a look closer at both languages however.

> also what is i18n?

i18n is shortcut for internalization, multilanguage support.
I hope this program will speak also italian :)

> well class is almost out so i end it here. lets start a chat room in
> relic.net or something so this can go faster. 

I've never heard of relic.net but as soon as it will be available again
I'll give it a look.

> also, what timezone are you in marco? may be helpful for us to know
> when bedtime is over there.  /gimpy/

GMT +1

I can dedicate 3-4 hours a day starting from 20.00 since I'm out for
work from 8.00 to 19.00.



Bye