Re: [Koha-devel] Another acquisition module ?

[Jerome Vizcaino]

Hello Mike

We already made changes to the loadmodule.pl in order to call our own 
acquisition module. It worked mainly but we wanted to know if there was 
a proper way (i.e. adding another module without modifying any existing 
Koha files) to do it. Will further development allow users to select 
their own acquisition modules name (not only acqui or acqui.simple) from 
the graphical interface ?

Thanks

Jerome


Mike Hansen wrote:

> Hello Jerome,
>
>         Regarding the state of Acquisitions in 1.9.2, they are a work in
> progress ;-].  There were a number of bugs filed (and fixed) regarding
> these problems.  In addition, Chris is working on "forward-porting" the
> simple acqusitions module from 1.2.3 into the pre-2.0 series.   
>
>         As to adding your own acqusitions module, yes, it would be fairly
> trivial to integrate another Acquisitions module into Koha.  Right now,
> Koha uses the loadmodules.pl script to look up what module to use for
> acquisitions.  All that would be really need to be done is to create the
> module, and add a line or two to loadmodules.pl.
>
>         On a related note to developers, how should we go about making it so
> that the work other libraries do available to everyone?  Do we want to
> include everything in the main releases or should we have a seperate
> section of a website where these modifications (and how to use them)
> would be made available?
>
> Mike
>
>