Adam, thanks for your trust in my Xcode knowledge, but right now I really don't know a thing about all these things (obj-c, xcode, svn, etc.) - tough learning curve, I guess. I currently have XCode 1.5 installed here on my panther machine, the BD wiki says I need 2.2 or above, so probably I can read the documentation but that won't help much, so sorry… I'll have a look next week when I have access to my office mac again (or maybe I will be able to swap the hard disk of my PowerBook G4 (the old one is quite full) and do a clean Leopard install, but I think this also might take some time this weekend. So given my skills and budget of time, I am afraid that I won't have the chance to go into detail in the next few weeks, which I am really sorry for since I'd like to give something back to a piece of software that already brought me forward a lot.
And Christiaan: thanks for digging after my problem, your solution sounds promising, I'll also be testing on monday. I already contacted Vienna University Library with more or less the same report that I gave here regarding my tests with yaz-client 2.12 - of course I'll keep you updated. The problem with switching record syntax - and I can almost understand that - is that it only makes sense when at least a group of libraries does that step (or else the maintainers of national or international compound catalogues won't support it or will be angry at this and that library etc. etc.). Hey, I'm still on OS X 10.3.9 (and I'm only one person!) ;-) Best, and thanks again for both your immediate response! Stephan Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > Hey Stephan, > > If you want to implement a MAB parser, numerous people would be quite > pleased! My excuse for not trying is that I can't read the > documentation :). MAP is deprecated, but given the speed at which > libraries make changes, I'd guess the MARC transition won't happen > overnight. > > For testing and debugging z39.50 stuff, I'd recommend using the z3950 > test program that we have. You'll need subversion installed, and you > can check it out with > > svn co > https://bibdesk.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bibdesk/trunk/bibdesk_vendorsrc/indexdata/yaz > > > or just open the vendorsrc folder if you have a BibDesk source > checkout (which you'd need anyway for hacking a parser). > > Inside the yaz/objc folder is the Obj-C wrapper we use, and there's a > GUI test program called (creatively) z3950Test that you can play with > (after compiling it with Xcode). You might want to add your server > in the z3950Test/Controller.m file to avoid typing it in every time. > It looks like you also need to compile the yaz.xcodeproj first, since > I never set it up as a dependency. Make sure Xcode is set to use a > customized location for Build Products in its preferences. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
