On 14 Jul 2008, at 13:06, CJoeB wrote:
Eric Martin wrote:
Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good
library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and
I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and
what books we are lending out to people so I figured this would be
a good way to keep track. Since it's for personal use it doesn't
have to be anything big. Preferably backended by MySQL as I
already have a server running for MythTV and Amarok.
I did a few eix searches for portage and came up empty handed, and
sourceforge.net has a ton of stuff but I was wondering what other
people use.
Have you heard of Tellico. It's a collection manager that can be
used for books, music, video ... whatever. It allows you to enter
the name of the book, a graphic if you have one, rate the book and
indicate whether or not it's a gift, how much you paid for it and
if you have lent it out. It *is* in Portage.
Some information:
http://periapsis.org/tellico/
The screenshots of this look really nice, however to me this seems
like a really odd motivation for writing a program:
I started developing it when I couldn't find a personal database
program for KDE which didn't using a SQL backend.
What's wrong with an SQL backend that needs you to re-invent the
wheel? I'm not saying there's a better collection manager out there,
or that the author's in the wrong for doing it the way he has. But it
just seems a little odd, and I'd love for him to explain his reasons
more fully.
Stroller.
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