From bo.rosen at gmail.com  Mon Dec 18 06:43:28 2006
From: bo.rosen at gmail.com (Bo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ros=E9n?=)
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:43:28 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Swedish provider
Message-ID: <1166442208.5495.7.camel@Delirium>

Hello,
I've just installed Alexandria on Ubuntu 6:10 and will definitely keep
using it inspite of some odd freezes.
However, my main question is wether it would be possible to add
providers for Swedish titles.
I tend to shop at www.adlibris.se or www.internetbokhandeln.se 

Thank you for a very usefull application.
-- 
Bo Ros?n <bo.rosen at gmail.com>
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From tristil at gmail.com  Tue Dec 19 22:43:06 2006
From: tristil at gmail.com (Joseph Method)
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:43:06 -0500
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Ongoing development
In-Reply-To: <45630B46.6080900@verizon.net>
References: <45630B46.6080900@verizon.net>
Message-ID: <167b6aa00612191943r8d7511dr1fe0dae68a3cbeb1@mail.gmail.com>

Sorry, I don't know why I didn't respond to this thread earlier. I
think I was holding back to see who would respond :).

I am interested in restarting this project. I don't think decisions
about new leadership need to be made at this point, especially since
I'm sure people would like to see Laurent Sansonetti back in charge
and contributing again. The first steps would involve clearing out all
the existing tickets, and only then formulating new goals. It would be
enough to have the Rubyforge project opened up to a few more
committers and bug reviewers. It might be necessary to temporarily
move development to another repository (svn!) to get things started
again. Anyways, I'm offering my help with code, and hosting resources
if necessary.

-- 
-J. Method

From tristil at gmail.com  Tue Dec 19 22:50:45 2006
From: tristil at gmail.com (Joseph Method)
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:50:45 -0500
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Manually add book bugs
Message-ID: <167b6aa00612191950h5ed82fb7g9d8e0559f179ee77@mail.gmail.com>

Can anyone confirm the crash regarding manually adding a book? Many of
the bugs in the tracker are about this, but I can't reproduce it.

-- 
-J. Method

From samuel.findlay at gmail.com  Tue Dec 19 23:08:23 2006
From: samuel.findlay at gmail.com (Samuel Findlay)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:08:23 +1100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Ongoing development
In-Reply-To: <167b6aa00612191943r8d7511dr1fe0dae68a3cbeb1@mail.gmail.com>
References: <45630B46.6080900@verizon.net>
	<167b6aa00612191943r8d7511dr1fe0dae68a3cbeb1@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <f59acd6b0612192008g706b06a6n39681c0e518c4edd@mail.gmail.com>

I would like to see the project moving forward again too. I don't have a lot
of experience programming, but I'm starting to learn Ruby.

I would also be interested in working on a port to the Windows platform.
There doesn't seem to be any open source software in this category (book
collections) for Windows - only a few programs, like this one, for Linux.

Sam Finday

On 20/12/06, Joseph Method <tristil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I don't know why I didn't respond to this thread earlier. I
> think I was holding back to see who would respond :).
>
> I am interested in restarting this project. I don't think decisions
> about new leadership need to be made at this point, especially since
> I'm sure people would like to see Laurent Sansonetti back in charge
> and contributing again. The first steps would involve clearing out all
> the existing tickets, and only then formulating new goals. It would be
> enough to have the Rubyforge project opened up to a few more
> committers and bug reviewers. It might be necessary to temporarily
> move development to another repository (svn!) to get things started
> again. Anyways, I'm offering my help with code, and hosting resources
> if necessary.
>
> --
> -J. Method
> _______________________________________________
> Alexandria-list mailing list
> Alexandria-list at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list
>
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From tao at acc.umu.se  Tue Dec 19 23:15:55 2006
From: tao at acc.umu.se (David Weinehall)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:15:55 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Ongoing development
In-Reply-To: <f59acd6b0612192008g706b06a6n39681c0e518c4edd@mail.gmail.com>
References: <45630B46.6080900@verizon.net>
	<167b6aa00612191943r8d7511dr1fe0dae68a3cbeb1@mail.gmail.com>
	<f59acd6b0612192008g706b06a6n39681c0e518c4edd@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20061220041555.GE19442@vasa.acc.umu.se>

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:08:23PM +1100, Samuel Findlay wrote:
> I would like to see the project moving forward again too. I don't have a lot
> of experience programming, but I'm starting to learn Ruby.
> 
> I would also be interested in working on a port to the Windows platform.
> There doesn't seem to be any open source software in this category (book
> collections) for Windows - only a few programs, like this one, for Linux.

gcstar should be able to meet that need on Windows; it's cross platform
AFAIK (and it supports importing Alexandria databases).

http://www.gcstar.org/


Regards: David
-- 
 /) David Weinehall <tao at acc.umu.se> /) Northern lights wander      (\
//  Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel   //  Dance across the winter sky //
\)  http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/    (/   Full colour fire           (/

From waldner at waldner.priv.at  Wed Dec 20 04:45:45 2006
From: waldner at waldner.priv.at (Robert Waldner)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:45:45 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Manually add book bugs
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:50:45 EST."
	<167b6aa00612191950h5ed82fb7g9d8e0559f179ee77@mail.gmail.com> 
References: <167b6aa00612191950h5ed82fb7g9d8e0559f179ee77@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20061220094547.374EA1BB2E@fsck.waldner.priv.at>


On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:50:45 EST, "Joseph Method" writes:
>Can anyone confirm the crash regarding manually adding a book?

Yes, happens reproducably on my Debian machine. As soon as I have
 entered the title and want to move to the next field:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb: line 1281
   GLib-CRITICAL **:g_utf8_casefold: assertion `str != NULL' failed



Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_AT at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages alexandria depends on:
ii  gconf2                        2.16.0-2   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libamazon-ruby                0.9.0-2    a Ruby library for programmatic ac
ii  libgconf2-ruby                0.15.0-1.1 GConf 2 bindings for the Ruby lang
ii  libgettext-ruby1.8            1.7.0-1    Gettext for ruby1.8
ii  libglade2-ruby                0.15.0-1.1 Libglade 2 bindings for the Ruby l
ii  libgnome2-ruby                0.15.0-1.1 GNOME 2 bindings for the Ruby lang
ii  libruby1.8 [libyaml-ruby1.8]  1.8.5-3    Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii  ruby1.8                       1.8.5-3    Interpreter of object-oriented scr 

Alexandria itself is 0.6.1-1.

Seems like the same bug as described in 
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381654 

cheers,
&rw
-- 
-- "We have redundant single points of failure."
--                               - Matt McLeod


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From tristil at gmail.com  Wed Dec 20 13:56:17 2006
From: tristil at gmail.com (Joseph Method)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:56:17 -0500
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Manually add book bugs
In-Reply-To: <20061220094547.374EA1BB2E@fsck.waldner.priv.at>
References: <167b6aa00612191950h5ed82fb7g9d8e0559f179ee77@mail.gmail.com>
	<20061220094547.374EA1BB2E@fsck.waldner.priv.at>
Message-ID: <167b6aa00612201056i654cf12cv242c92e344159a7d@mail.gmail.com>

Looks pretty straightforward. It expects UTF-8 and gets something else
(ISO-8859-15) instead. I'll take a look at it tonight. In the
meantime, does it matter whether you only enter ASCII range (English)
characters or not? Could you give me a couple test strings that
failed?

On 12/20/06, Robert Waldner <waldner at waldner.priv.at> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:50:45 EST, "Joseph Method" writes:
> >Can anyone confirm the crash regarding manually adding a book?
>
> Yes, happens reproducably on my Debian machine. As soon as I have
>  entered the title and want to move to the next field:
>
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb: line 1281
>    GLib-CRITICAL **:g_utf8_casefold: assertion `str != NULL' failed
>
>
>
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_AT at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
>
> Versions of packages alexandria depends on:
> ii  gconf2                        2.16.0-2   GNOME configuration database syste
> ii  libamazon-ruby                0.9.0-2    a Ruby library for programmatic ac
> ii  libgconf2-ruby                0.15.0-1.1 GConf 2 bindings for the Ruby lang
> ii  libgettext-ruby1.8            1.7.0-1    Gettext for ruby1.8
> ii  libglade2-ruby                0.15.0-1.1 Libglade 2 bindings for the Ruby l
> ii  libgnome2-ruby                0.15.0-1.1 GNOME 2 bindings for the Ruby lang
> ii  libruby1.8 [libyaml-ruby1.8]  1.8.5-3    Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
> ii  ruby1.8                       1.8.5-3    Interpreter of object-oriented scr
>
> Alexandria itself is 0.6.1-1.
>
> Seems like the same bug as described in
>  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381654
>
> cheers,
> &rw
> --
> -- "We have redundant single points of failure."
> --                               - Matt McLeod
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Alexandria-list mailing list
> Alexandria-list at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list
>
>
>


-- 
-J. Method

From tristil at gmail.com  Wed Dec 20 14:04:23 2006
From: tristil at gmail.com (Joseph Method)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:04:23 -0500
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Swedish provider
In-Reply-To: <1166603432.5236.3.camel@Delirium>
References: <1166442208.5495.7.camel@Delirium>
	<167b6aa00612191931s2bad1bfbp8d32bc351adca35d@mail.gmail.com>
	<1166603432.5236.3.camel@Delirium>
Message-ID: <167b6aa00612201104y37ac9853xa5405b14027923e4@mail.gmail.com>

Well, I realize now that API is a misleading term. The "Api" for
Barnes and Noble in Alexandria is a screen scraper. It just looks up
certain urls and scrapes the results. So maybe it will happen. Want to
take a shot at it? It's a matter of changing certain strings in a file
called bn.rb.

On 12/20/06, Bo Ros?n <bo.rosen at gmail.com> wrote:
> tis 2006-12-19 klockan 22:31 -0500 skrev Joseph Method:
>
> Joseph,
>
> > It depends on whether they have an API, like Amazon and the other
> > providers. Maybe you can provide links with details about the APIs.
>
> I can't find anything on their sites on this, so it doesn't look
> promising.
> --
> Bo Ros?n <bo.rosen at gmail.com>
>
>
>


-- 
-J. Method

From waldner at waldner.priv.at  Wed Dec 20 14:13:50 2006
From: waldner at waldner.priv.at (Robert Waldner)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:13:50 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Manually add book bugs
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:56:17 EST."
	<167b6aa00612201056i654cf12cv242c92e344159a7d@mail.gmail.com> 
References: <167b6aa00612191950h5ed82fb7g9d8e0559f179ee77@mail.gmail.com>
	<20061220094547.374EA1BB2E@fsck.waldner.priv.at>
	<167b6aa00612201056i654cf12cv242c92e344159a7d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20061220191354.7656A1BB2E@fsck.waldner.priv.at>


On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:56:17 EST, "Joseph Method" writes:
>>>Can anyone confirm the crash regarding manually adding a book?

>> Yes, happens reproducably on my Debian machine. As soon as I have
>>  entered the title and want to move to the next field:
>>
>> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb: line 1281
>>    GLib-CRITICAL **:g_utf8_casefold: assertion `str != NULL' failed

>Looks pretty straightforward. It expects UTF-8 and gets something else
>(ISO-8859-15) instead. I'll take a look at it tonight. In the
>meantime, does it matter whether you only enter ASCII range (English)
>characters or not? Could you give me a couple test strings that
>failed?

Happens with every input, doesn't need any "special" (eg non-US-ASCII) 
 characters - f'rex, I tested with "test", but it also crashes with "?".

cheers,
&rw
-- 
-- "I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence.
-- There's a knob called `brightness', but it doesn't work."
--                                                    - Gallagher


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From bo.rosen at gmail.com  Wed Dec 20 15:32:22 2006
From: bo.rosen at gmail.com (Bo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ros=E9n?=)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:32:22 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Swedish provider
In-Reply-To: <167b6aa00612201104y37ac9853xa5405b14027923e4@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1166442208.5495.7.camel@Delirium>
	<167b6aa00612191931s2bad1bfbp8d32bc351adca35d@mail.gmail.com>
	<1166603432.5236.3.camel@Delirium>
	<167b6aa00612201104y37ac9853xa5405b14027923e4@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1166646744.11706.12.camel@Delirium>

ons 2006-12-20 klockan 14:04 -0500 skrev Joseph Method:

I just realised the reply-to for the list is not set to the list itself
so several mails have not come here at all.

So, a quick summary of those mails ;-)

I'd prefer to use Alexandria as it is a gnome program, but GCstar seems
more mature and someone has kindly agreed to add the search plugins I
wanted. I am completetly ignorant about programming, so I really
couldn't do it myself in either program.
So for the time being, I'm sticking with GCstar. I will keep testing
Alexandria and if there is anything I can do to help bring the plugins I
need to Alexandria, short of programming, I'd be happy to.

> Well, I realize now that API is a misleading term. The "Api" for
> Barnes and Noble in Alexandria is a screen scraper. It just looks up
> certain urls and scrapes the results. So maybe it will happen. Want to
> take a shot at it? It's a matter of changing certain strings in a file
> called bn.rb.

-- 
Bo Ros?n <bo.rosen at gmail.com>
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From pointpleasantnj at yahoo.com  Fri Dec 22 00:07:02 2006
From: pointpleasantnj at yahoo.com (kris laurenti)
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:07:02 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Alexandria-list] TAKE OFF LIST SERVE
Message-ID: <853707.39140.qm@web54208.mail.yahoo.com>

This is my second request: please take me OFF your list serve.
   
  Thank you.
  pointpleasanj at yahoo.com
   

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