[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Craftsman skin deprecated and removed for 2.1

[Grant Johnson]

Or perhaps that is what the template toolkit is.
On Aug 25, 2011 8:38 PM, "Grant Johnson" <fgjohnson at lojoh.ca> wrote:
> Hey Gaylen...
> Has there been movement to resolve the 'white screen' issues often found
in
> the 1.6, 2.x versions?
>
> This may have been addressed aready... I have been out of the loop... but
am
> always interested. There was talk about an OPAC rebuilt a year ago...or
so.
>
> Cheers
> Grant Johnson
> On Aug 2, 2011 6:26 PM, "Galen Charlton" <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just a quick heads-up that as of today, the Craftsman OPAC skin is
>> deprecated and has been removed from the upcoming 2.1 release of
> Evergreen.
>>
>> This follows long-standing difficulties keeping the Craftsman skin up to
>> date as features got added to the Evergreen OPAC over the years. It
>> also follows an attempt that Dan Scott made in August 2010 [1] to find
>> individuals and/or organizations willing to maintain the skin. As a
>> result of the fact that nobody expressed sustained interest in taking
>> responsibility for the skin, Craftsman, which already has bugs in 2.0.x,
>> became even less functional in the upcoming 2.1.x.
>>
>> Thanks to Joseph Lewis and Thomas Berezansky for helping to pull the
>> plug today.
>>
>> It would be a good idea for current users of the Craftsman skin to
>> account for the deprecation now when planning their upgrade to 2.1 (or
>> to 2.2, which will be the first full release that includes the Template
>> Toolkit OPAC).
>>
>> [1]
>>
>
http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2010-August/006269.html
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Galen
>> --
>> Galen Charlton
>> Director of Support and Implementation
>> Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
>> email: gmc at esilibrary.com
>> direct: +1 770-709-5581
>> cell: +1 404-984-4366
>> skype: gmcharlt
>> web: http://www.esilibrary.com/
>> Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org &
>> http://evergreen-ils.org
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