On 04/02/2008, Edward Corrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Also, an academic holds/reserves functionality is important, hopefully with > built-in electronic reserves capability. Maybe if something could be tied > into something like ReservesDirect ( http://www.reservesdirect.org ).
On this piece specifically, we looked at ReservesDirect earlier this year and there are two barriers to using it with Evergreen: 1) ReservesDirect is written in PHP, and while Evergreen has Perl, Java, C, and Python bindings, nobody has stepped up to write PHP bindings. Yet. It's just a simple matter of programming, right? 2) ReservesDirect is not i18n-aware - it uses hardcoded strings and many constructed strings - and as I'm in the midst of completing the grunt work to make Evergreen i18n-aware, I'm not really keen on diving into another application. That said, I know that a rewrite of ReservesDirect is underway, and I submitted a request / plea to make it i18n-friendly from the ground up this time. So hopefully that barrier will magically go away with time :) -- Dan Scott Laurentian University
