[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC: Craftsman skin

[Soulliere, Robert]

Tara,

We avoided craftsman (even when it was popular and despite pressure at my institution) for 2 reasons.

1. It is more difficult to customize.
2. Every core Evergreen developer seemed to cringe whenever it was mentioned.

When the software developers and software engineers cringe, run the other way is my motto!

The proposed delegation to the contrib repo for future versions should be the final convincing factor for anyone.

The new development Bill Erickson and ESI are working on is the way to go for the future.

By the way, thanks and kudos to Bill and ESI for developing it and sharing it with the community.

This is fantastic stuff!

Regards,
Robert






Robert Soulliere, BA (Hons), MLIS
Systems Librarian
Mohawk College Library
robert.soulliere at mohawkcollege.ca
Telephone: 905 575 1212 x3936
Fax: 905 575 2011
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From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott [dan at coffeecode.net]
Sent: March 8, 2011 8:26 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC: Craftsman skin

On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 04:19:41PM -0800, Tara Robertson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if the craftsman skin is being maintained. I recall Equinox
> contracted another company to make it (for GPLS?) but I don't see it used on
> production at GPLS (though I'm not sure if each library has a custom skin).

I would advise against using Craftsman. 7 months ago I put out a call for
maintainers (http://markmail.org/message/eqgivvsk255efvuc) and thus far
nobody has stepped up or provided patches to bring it up to speed in 2.0
or trunk. It seems like as good a time as any to to propose that for 2.1
Craftsman be removed from the core repository into the ILS-Contrib
repository.

On the bright side, the new OPAC that Bill Erickson has been working on
offers a much saner direction for future customized skins.

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