From arthurg at harvest.co.zw  Thu Feb  5 05:28:27 2009
From: arthurg at harvest.co.zw (Arthur Garande)
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:28:27 +0200
Subject: [Alexandria-list] add book
Message-ID: <1233829707.5653.41.camel@harvest-desktop>

When i try to add a book to my library i get the message: Couldn't reach
the provider 'Worldcat': socket error (getaddrinfo: Name or service not
known). What could be the problem and how do i resolve it?
Arthur


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From cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org  Thu Feb  5 10:14:50 2009
From: cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org (Cathal Mc Ginley)
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:14:50 +0000
Subject: [Alexandria-list] add book (worldcat)
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On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:28:27 +0200
Arthur Garande <arthurg at harvest.co.zw> wrote:

> When i try to add a book to my library i get the message: Couldn't
> reach the provider 'Worldcat': socket error (getaddrinfo: Name or
> service not known). What could be the problem and how do i resolve it?

The message seems to be that the program can't reach worldcat.org
You can test this by trying to run the attached script from a terminal:

   ruby worldcat.rb

However, the WorldCat provider is currently broken anyway (it's not up
to date with the current layout of the WorldCat website). To avoid too
many problems, you should push it down to the bottom of the Provider
list under "Edit > Preferences".

Obviously, fixing the provider will be done at some point, but
development on Alexandria's been on another of its long lulls recently.
Sorry 'bout that...


   -   Cathal.

> Arthur
> 
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From leandro.regueiro at gmail.com  Thu Feb  5 12:54:27 2009
From: leandro.regueiro at gmail.com (Leandro Regueiro)
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:54:27 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Are you alive?
Message-ID: <ad7553860902050954w5d71383bne93a0178d751c6f@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,
are you alive? is still Alexandria in development?

Bye,
                Leandro Regueiro

From cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org  Fri Feb  6 07:24:01 2009
From: cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org (Cathal Mc Ginley)
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 12:24:01 +0000
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Are you alive? Yup!
In-Reply-To: <ad7553860902050954w5d71383bne93a0178d751c6f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:54:27 +0100
Leandro Regueiro <leandro.regueiro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> are you alive? is still Alexandria in development?

Hello,

well, I'm still here at least. Development on Alexandria is fairly slow
and tends to have very long lulls with no progress. At the moment I'm
working on fixing a few of the outstanding bugs so I can release a new
version sometime this month. The problems I tend to have are:

1) I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so I don't like releasing a new
version which I know still has bugs. I should probably just do more
releases, and more frequently.

2) The code is getting a little bit "crufty" these days, after being
modified by several waves of developers who weren't familiar with the
original design but had to pick it up as they went along. This
untidiness makes working on the code difficult, and leads to a couple
of hidden bugs. A bit of refactoring might go a long way here.

3) Some of the design decisions taken by the original designers
(Laurent Sansonetti et al)  are limiting the evolution of the program
(for example, only one copy of a book per library). This is natural,
it was originally designed to deal with small personal book
collections. I've been coming up with alternative, more flexible
designs by means of a ground-up redesign (which I call Palatina), but
progress has been slow. Once the next bugfix version of Alexandria is
out, I'll start discussing the new design on this mailing list.

Anyway, my current plan of action is to figure out some of the
most pressing bugs which can be fixed within... lets say the next week.
I'll be going through the Tracker on RubyForge flagging the bugs I'm
targeting for 0.6.4 as Group "Next Release". Then, I'll do a string
freeze for the translators (most of the translations are up do date,
and there are several new translations since 0.6.3 too). And finally,
hopefully, I can push out a release of 0.6.4 around the end of February.

I'd welcome any suggestions to help with the bug-fixing and testing.
I'll keep the list notified about any progress.

   -   Cathal Magus
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From leandro.regueiro at gmail.com  Fri Feb  6 09:19:43 2009
From: leandro.regueiro at gmail.com (Leandro Regueiro)
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 15:19:43 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Are you alive? Yup!
In-Reply-To: <20090206122401.229de8fc@kate>
References: <ad7553860902050954w5d71383bne93a0178d751c6f@mail.gmail.com>
	<20090206122401.229de8fc@kate>
Message-ID: <ad7553860902060619k7ce7fdb6h65e773ba17e436e9@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Cathal Mc Ginley
<cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:54:27 +0100
> Leandro Regueiro <leandro.regueiro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> are you alive? is still Alexandria in development?
>
> Hello,
>
> well, I'm still here at least. Development on Alexandria is fairly slow
> and tends to have very long lulls with no progress. At the moment I'm
> working on fixing a few of the outstanding bugs so I can release a new
> version sometime this month. The problems I tend to have are:
>
> 1) I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so I don't like releasing a new
> version which I know still has bugs. I should probably just do more
> releases, and more frequently.
>
> 2) The code is getting a little bit "crufty" these days, after being
> modified by several waves of developers who weren't familiar with the
> original design but had to pick it up as they went along. This
> untidiness makes working on the code difficult, and leads to a couple
> of hidden bugs. A bit of refactoring might go a long way here.
>
> 3) Some of the design decisions taken by the original designers
> (Laurent Sansonetti et al)  are limiting the evolution of the program
> (for example, only one copy of a book per library). This is natural,
> it was originally designed to deal with small personal book
> collections. I've been coming up with alternative, more flexible
> designs by means of a ground-up redesign (which I call Palatina), but
> progress has been slow. Once the next bugfix version of Alexandria is
> out, I'll start discussing the new design on this mailing list.
>
> Anyway, my current plan of action is to figure out some of the
> most pressing bugs which can be fixed within... lets say the next week.
> I'll be going through the Tracker on RubyForge flagging the bugs I'm
> targeting for 0.6.4 as Group "Next Release". Then, I'll do a string
> freeze for the translators (most of the translations are up do date,
> and there are several new translations since 0.6.3 too). And finally,
> hopefully, I can push out a release of 0.6.4 around the end of February.
>
> I'd welcome any suggestions to help with the bug-fixing and testing.
> I'll keep the list notified about any progress.

I have a feature request. In my home there are several hundreds of
books. This Christmas I get a list of all the ISBNs of the books, and
I wrote down it on a plain text file with one ISBN per line. When I
add the books to Alexandria, I have to add them one by one, so it
tooks me a lot of time. Could you add some feature to allow adding
automatically all the ISBNs from a given list and let me do another
things meanwhile?

Bye,
                 Leandro Regueiro

From cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org  Fri Feb  6 11:15:47 2009
From: cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org (Cathal Mc Ginley)
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:15:47 +0000
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Are you alive? Yup!
In-Reply-To: <ad7553860902060619k7ce7fdb6h65e773ba17e436e9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ad7553860902050954w5d71383bne93a0178d751c6f@mail.gmail.com>
	<20090206122401.229de8fc@kate>
	<ad7553860902060619k7ce7fdb6h65e773ba17e436e9@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 15:19:43 +0100
Leandro Regueiro <leandro.regueiro at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> I have a feature request. In my home there are several hundreds of
> books. This Christmas I get a list of all the ISBNs of the books, and
> I wrote down it on a plain text file with one ISBN per line. When I
> add the books to Alexandria, I have to add them one by one, so it
> tooks me a lot of time. Could you add some feature to allow adding
> automatically all the ISBNs from a given list and let me do another
> things meanwhile?

The menu item "Library > Import" and choose "ISBN List (*.txt)", then
select your file. The import runs in the foreground though (so as not
to confuse Alexandria by adding books to a Library in the background
while you're working with it in the foreground).

   -   C.
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From leandro.regueiro at gmail.com  Fri Feb  6 11:21:57 2009
From: leandro.regueiro at gmail.com (Leandro Regueiro)
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:21:57 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Are you alive? Yup!
In-Reply-To: <20090206161547.034d22d0@kate>
References: <ad7553860902050954w5d71383bne93a0178d751c6f@mail.gmail.com>
	<20090206122401.229de8fc@kate>
	<ad7553860902060619k7ce7fdb6h65e773ba17e436e9@mail.gmail.com>
	<20090206161547.034d22d0@kate>
Message-ID: <ad7553860902060821kd74f2e5kfdb2409598f9dfd2@mail.gmail.com>

>> I have a feature request. In my home there are several hundreds of
>> books. This Christmas I get a list of all the ISBNs of the books, and
>> I wrote down it on a plain text file with one ISBN per line. When I
>> add the books to Alexandria, I have to add them one by one, so it
>> tooks me a lot of time. Could you add some feature to allow adding
>> automatically all the ISBNs from a given list and let me do another
>> things meanwhile?
>
> The menu item "Library > Import" and choose "ISBN List (*.txt)", then
> select your file. The import runs in the foreground though (so as not
> to confuse Alexandria by adding books to a Library in the background
> while you're working with it in the foreground).

Thanks.

Bye,
                    Leandro Regueiro