From pocmatos at gmail.com  Fri Feb  5 06:18:51 2010
From: pocmatos at gmail.com (Paulo J. Matos)
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:18:51 +0000
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Sync DB
Message-ID: <11b141711002050318k5fc7cb54rb0ad2e6ddb591485@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

One of the features I would like to see in Alexandria, would be a way
to synchronize Alexandria DB between several computers.
However, I would also like to hear suggestions on how to do this
without this feature in Alexandria.

Thanks,

-- 
Paulo Jorge Matos - pocmatos at gmail.com
http://www.pmatos.net

From yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com  Fri Feb  5 11:05:03 2010
From: yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com (Steve)
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:05:03 -0000
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Sync DB
In-Reply-To: <11b141711002050318k5fc7cb54rb0ad2e6ddb591485@mail.gmail.com>
References: <11b141711002050318k5fc7cb54rb0ad2e6ddb591485@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <op.u7nwapmx3z9ow3@wharfe>

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:18:51 -0000, Paulo J. Matos <pocmatos at gmail.com>  
wrote:

Hi all,

One of the features I would like to see in Alexandria, would be a way
to synchronize Alexandria DB between several computers.
However, I would also like to hear suggestions on how to do this
without this feature in Alexandria.

Thanks,

On the network at home I just have simlinks from the directories in  
./alexandria that point to my server.  I am going to try using Ubuntuone  
at some point.

--
Steve

From yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com  Fri Feb  5 11:12:16 2010
From: yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com (Steve)
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:12:16 -0000
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Sync DB
In-Reply-To: <4B6C41B0.4000004@gmail.com>
References: <11b141711002050318k5fc7cb54rb0ad2e6ddb591485@mail.gmail.com>
	<op.u7nv6q0u3z9ow3@wharfe> <4B6C41B0.4000004@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <op.u7nwmqtu3z9ow3@wharfe>

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:05:04 -0000, Paulo J. Matos <pocmatos at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Steve wrote:
>> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:18:51 -0000, Paulo J. Matos <pocmatos at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> One of the features I would like to see in Alexandria, would be a way
>>> to synchronize Alexandria DB between several computers.
>>> However, I would also like to hear suggestions on how to do this
>>> without this feature in Alexandria.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>> On the network at home I just have simlinks from the directories in  
>> ./alexandria that point to my server.  I am going to try using  
>> Ubuntuone at some point.
>>
>
> Do you mean you have a server mounted through ssh or similar and then  
> you just create a symlink? That's an idea... :)
>
> Thanks!
I use NFS on the network not tried it with ssh.

-- 
Steve

From pocmatos at gmail.com  Fri Feb  5 11:14:33 2010
From: pocmatos at gmail.com (Paulo J. Matos)
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:14:33 +0000
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Sync DB
In-Reply-To: <op.u7nwmqtu3z9ow3@wharfe>
References: <11b141711002050318k5fc7cb54rb0ad2e6ddb591485@mail.gmail.com>
	<op.u7nv6q0u3z9ow3@wharfe> <4B6C41B0.4000004@gmail.com>
	<op.u7nwmqtu3z9ow3@wharfe>
Message-ID: <4B6C43E9.2000001@gmail.com>

Steve wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:05:04 -0000, Paulo J. Matos <pocmatos at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Steve wrote:
>>> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:18:51 -0000, Paulo J. Matos 
>>> <pocmatos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> One of the features I would like to see in Alexandria, would be a way
>>>> to synchronize Alexandria DB between several computers.
>>>> However, I would also like to hear suggestions on how to do this
>>>> without this feature in Alexandria.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>> On the network at home I just have simlinks from the directories in 
>>> ./alexandria that point to my server.  I am going to try using 
>>> Ubuntuone at some point.
>>>
>>
>> Do you mean you have a server mounted through ssh or similar and then 
>> you just create a symlink? That's an idea... :)
>>
>> Thanks!
> I use NFS on the network not tried it with ssh.
> 

Okidoki! :)

From victor at chuma.org  Fri Feb  5 09:07:03 2010
From: victor at chuma.org (Victor Rehorst)
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:07:03 -0500
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Sync DB
In-Reply-To: <11b141711002050318k5fc7cb54rb0ad2e6ddb591485@mail.gmail.com>
References: <11b141711002050318k5fc7cb54rb0ad2e6ddb591485@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4B6C2607.1050801@chuma.org>

On 05/02/10 06:18 AM, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> One of the features I would like to see in Alexandria, would be a way
> to synchronize Alexandria DB between several computers.
> However, I would also like to hear suggestions on how to do this
> without this feature in Alexandria

Alexandria stores its database as simple files under the .alexandria/
directory in the user's home folder. 

An online file storage / sync service like Dropbox
[http://getdropbox.com/] should be able to do this no problem.

Let's say you've installed Dropbox on your source computer (the one with
the Alexandria DB now).  Your Alexandria DB is at ~/.alexandria/ and
your Dropbox folder is at ~/Dropbox/.

Symlink your DB into the Dropbox folder: ln -s ~/.alexandria/
~/Dropbox/alexandria/

Dropbox should detect the change immediately and start uploading the
changes to their server.

Now install Dropbox on a target computer (using the same account of
course).  But don't start Alexandria yet.

Symlink the DB from the Dropbox folder into the correct location: ln -s
~/Dropbox/alexandria ~/.alexandria

Now start Alexandria on the target machine and it should just work.

I hope that helps, Dropbox has some excellent online support if any of
this was confusing.

-Victor

From pocmatos at gmail.com  Wed Feb 10 17:24:16 2010
From: pocmatos at gmail.com (Paulo Matos)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:24:16 +0000
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alexandria Amazon Bug
Message-ID: <4B733210.9070301@gmail.com>

Hi,

I am running Alexandria 0.6.5 and I am getting a bug from Amazon which I
am not being able to decipher by reading the debug. It might have
something to do with the access keys stuff.

I tried finding where the keys are kept but they don't seem to be kept
in .alexandria. Any tips on their whereabouts?

In the meantime I will try the latest 0.6.6-beta.

Cheers,
-- 
PMatos

From pocmatos at gmail.com  Wed Feb 10 17:46:10 2010
From: pocmatos at gmail.com (Paulo Matos)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:46:10 +0000
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Installing in home dir
Message-ID: <4B733732.8050208@gmail.com>

Hi,

Is there a way to install alexandria in the home dir, in case you don't
have admin rights?

-- 
PMatos

From martin.sucha-ml at jts-sro.sk  Wed Feb 10 18:10:11 2010
From: martin.sucha-ml at jts-sro.sk (Martin Sucha)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:10:11 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] [PATCHes] Some glitches in latest beta
Message-ID: <201002110010.11395.martin.sucha-ml@jts-sro.sk>

Hi all,

I've started using Alexandria, but I found some bugs while adding my books to 
the library.

I am using alexandria 0.6.6-beta1 (from PPA) and attached patches are against 
this version.

First of all, only first part of book title was added from custom Z39.50 
provider, so I modified it to add second part as well. (I don't know this 
standard so I don't know if it is correct change, but it works for me. If this 
is only applicable to providers I use, I can provide list of these so you can 
add special casing for them) and the pseudomarc parser additionally fails when 
provider returns ISBN with capital X at the end. See pseudomarc.diff.

Secondly, alexandria seems to require that books have authors (this is 
logical), but there is no author for one book it found. This causes errors 
when opening properties dialog (and thus, you can't add author there). See 
book_properties_dialog.diff and completion_models.diff. Another feature that 
fails when there is no author is CSV export (I have no patch for this, maybe 
someone on this list could have a look?)

Additionally, it would be useful to be able to import/export X39.50 provider 
connection info to for example xml file (I needed to add about 10 local 
providers and it is time consuming to copy&paste all the information from the 
web)

Last but not least, there is an useful option to keep the dialog for adding 
books open after adding a book, however when you add more than a few books, 
the list view with books does not scroll automatically. It would be useful to 
see the title and author for a book e.g in status bar ('Found in $provider' 
could be replaced by  'Found $book written by $authors in $provider) or the 
book list view could scroll automatically or both.

I've modified alexandria files in place (yes, I know I should get a proper vcs 
checkout, but I'm lazy :), so the attached diffs do not contain correct file 
paths, but I believe this is not a problem.

Best regards,
Martin Sucha
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From cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org  Thu Feb 11 12:44:58 2010
From: cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org (Cathal Mc Ginley)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:44:58 +0000
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Installing in home dir
In-Reply-To: <4B733732.8050208@gmail.com>
References: <4B733732.8050208@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20100211174458.5bf418d5@jadzia>

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On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:46:10 +0000
Paulo Matos <pocmatos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to install alexandria in the home dir, in case you
> don't have admin rights?

It's possible with Alexandria 0.6.6-beta1 (I was adding the feature for
0.6.6). Download the tar.gz and extract it. Then choose where you want
to install the program, for example if you want the 'alexandria'
script in ~/bin, the data files in ~/.share and the ruby files in
~/.rubylib then you run the following:

PREFIX=$HOME SHARE=$HOME/.share RUBYLIBDIR=$HOME/.rubylib rake

PREFIX=$HOME SHARE=$HOME/.share RUBYLIBDIR=$HOME/.rubylib rake \
install_package

Then add RUBYLIB=$HOME/.rubylib to your environment variables (export
it in your ~/.bashrc for example) and run:

alexandria

(This method doesn't install a launcher in your Office application
menu, but you can add one manually. The program will be
~/bin/alexandria and you can find the icons under ~/.share/icons )

   -   Cathal.
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From cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org  Sun Feb 14 08:19:38 2010
From: cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org (Cathal Mc Ginley)
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:19:38 +0000
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alexandria Amazon Bug
In-Reply-To: <4B733210.9070301@gmail.com>
References: <4B733210.9070301@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20100214131938.0bf9fbfb@jadzia>

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On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:24:16 +0000
Paulo Matos <pocmatos at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am running Alexandria 0.6.5 and I am getting a bug from Amazon
> which I am not being able to decipher by reading the debug. It might
> have something to do with the access keys stuff.

As I mentioned on your bug report (#27816) the problem may be due to a
buggy version of libhpricot-ruby.

> I tried finding where the keys are kept but they don't seem to be kept
> in .alexandria. Any tips on their whereabouts?
 
Alexandria's settings are stored using GConf, you can view (and
edit) them directly with:

  gconf-editor /apps/alexandria

Cheers,

   -   C.
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From cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org  Sun Feb 14 09:55:05 2010
From: cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org (Cathal Mc Ginley)
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:55:05 +0000
Subject: [Alexandria-list] [PATCHes] Some glitches in latest beta
In-Reply-To: <201002110010.11395.martin.sucha-ml@jts-sro.sk>
References: <201002110010.11395.martin.sucha-ml@jts-sro.sk>
Message-ID: <20100214145505.577b8935@jadzia>

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On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:10:11 +0100
Martin Sucha <martin.sucha-ml at jts-sro.sk> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've started using Alexandria, but I found some bugs while adding my
> books to the library.

Hi Martin, welcome to Alexandria.

> I am using alexandria 0.6.6-beta1 (from PPA) and attached patches are
> against this version.
> 
> First of all, only first part of book title was added from custom
> Z39.50 provider, so I modified it to add second part as well.

245$a is for title proper; 245$b for subtitle. Alexandria doesn't handle
subtitles separately (as Palatina does) so I suppose it's simply a
matter of opinion whether it should be appended to the title in these
cases. Providers like Amazon usually have title and subtitle as a
single field, so I'll include your change. Thanks for the suggestion.

> pseudomarc parser additionally fails when provider returns ISBN with
> capital X at the end. 

D'oh! That was careless of me, I'd probably meant to make it a
case-insensitive regex (i.e. /blah/i )


> Secondly, alexandria seems to require that books have authors 

Actually, Alexandria *should* work fine for books which have no author.
(I just confirmed this by adding 9780719051463 from Amazon). CSV export
works too, the line looks like this:

Beowulf: Revised Edition (Manchester Medieval Classics);;Manchester
University Press;Paperback;9780719051463;1997;;;1;0;1;

> This causes errors when opening properties dialog (and thus, you
> can't add author there).

This is odd, and I haven't experienced this issue. When a book has no
author, the book.authors property will be an empty list which should
cause no problems for the user interface.

Can you confirm that you encounter problems when your patch is present
and that the patch fixes the problems? What version of Ruby are you
using? There might be an issue with loading the data from YAML.
 
> Additionally, it would be useful to be able to import/export X39.50
> provider connection info to for example xml file (I needed to add
> about 10 local providers and it is time consuming to copy&paste all
> the information from the web)

In the mean time, you could script this. The custom Z39.50 settings are
kept in GConf under /apps/alexandria with key names like
z3950_566159849_name. Actually, looking into this, it's not quite so
easy (because you'd need to append the new provider to list
properties). But I've attached an example of a shell script which adds
a new Z39.50 provider using a gconftool-2. It should be pretty easy to
work into a ruby script for importing from a CSV list of providers or
something.

You can save your GConf settings with:
gconftool-2 --dump /apps/alexandria > alexandria-gconf.xml
and reload them with:
gconftool-2 --load alexandria-gconf.xml

> Last but not least, there is an useful option to keep the dialog for
> adding books open after adding a book, however when you add more than
> a few books, the list view with books does not scroll automatically.

I've also thought that would be useful. Unfortunately the code in that
area gets into the regions of "stuff I don't fully understand" and
there are already issues with it (especially the icon view). We can add
it to a features wishlist.

> It would be useful to see the title and author for a book e.g in
> status bar ('Found in $provider' could be replaced by  'Found $book
> written by $authors in $provider) or the book list view could scroll
> automatically or both.

When it's working correctly, it should say "Found at $provider" and
then select the newly-added book and say "$book.title selected", which
seems to be pretty much what you're looking for. Unfortunately, it
doesn't *always* select the right book, so that's the main thing to fix.

> I've modified alexandria files in place (yes, I know I should get a
> proper vcs checkout, but I'm lazy :), so the attached diffs do not
> contain correct file paths, but I believe this is not a problem.

Modifying files in-place is how I got started with Alexandria too.
I've applied your pseudomarc patch, it's in SVN r1137 if you need
motivation to check out the SVN repository.

I'm holding off on the other patches, since I'm not sure why you're
getting these problems for no-author-books when I'm not.

Anyway, thanks for your contributions.

   -   Cathal.
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From martin.sucha-ml at jts-sro.sk  Sun Feb 14 12:20:34 2010
From: martin.sucha-ml at jts-sro.sk (Martin Sucha)
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:20:34 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] [PATCHes] Some glitches in latest beta
In-Reply-To: <20100214145505.577b8935@jadzia>
References: <201002110010.11395.martin.sucha-ml@jts-sro.sk>
	<20100214145505.577b8935@jadzia>
Message-ID: <201002141820.34885.martin.sucha-ml@jts-sro.sk>

Hi Cathal,

On Sunday 14 February 2010 15:55:05 Cathal Mc Ginley wrote:
> > Secondly, alexandria seems to require that books have authors
> 
> Actually, Alexandria *should* work fine for books which have no author.
> (I just confirmed this by adding 9780719051463 from Amazon). CSV export
> works too, the line looks like this:
> 
> Beowulf: Revised Edition (Manchester Medieval Classics);;Manchester
> University Press;Paperback;9780719051463;1997;;;1;0;1;
> 
> > This causes errors when opening properties dialog (and thus, you
> > can't add author there).
> 
> This is odd, and I haven't experienced this issue. When a book has no
> author, the book.authors property will be an empty list which should
> cause no problems for the user interface.
> 
> Can you confirm that you encounter problems when your patch is present
> and that the patch fixes the problems? What version of Ruby are you
> using? There might be an issue with loading the data from YAML.
I've tried to add ~10 books (with no authors) to test library and I wasn't 
able to reproduce it. Don't know why book.authors was Nil. Maybe it was caused 
by the capital-X-in-isbn problem? Books with X in ISBN were actually added to 
library, but with wrong ISBN, maybe something other was wrong with them too?. 
I remember making patches for authors before I found the isbn problem. Anyway, 
thanks for your help. I'll let you know if I encounter this strange problem 
again.

> 
> > Additionally, it would be useful to be able to import/export X39.50
> > provider connection info to for example xml file (I needed to add
> > about 10 local providers and it is time consuming to copy&paste all
> > the information from the web)
> 
> In the mean time, you could script this. The custom Z39.50 settings are
> kept in GConf under /apps/alexandria with key names like
> z3950_566159849_name. Actually, looking into this, it's not quite so
> easy (because you'd need to append the new provider to list
> properties). But I've attached an example of a shell script which adds
> a new Z39.50 provider using a gconftool-2. It should be pretty easy to
> work into a ruby script for importing from a CSV list of providers or
> something.
> 
> You can save your GConf settings with:
> gconftool-2 --dump /apps/alexandria > alexandria-gconf.xml
> and reload them with:
> gconftool-2 --load alexandria-gconf.xml
Thanks, will try next time.

> 
> > Last but not least, there is an useful option to keep the dialog for
> > adding books open after adding a book, however when you add more than
> > a few books, the list view with books does not scroll automatically.
> 
> I've also thought that would be useful. Unfortunately the code in that
> area gets into the regions of "stuff I don't fully understand" and
> there are already issues with it (especially the icon view). We can add
> it to a features wishlist.
Please do, so it is at least listed there.

> 
> > It would be useful to see the title and author for a book e.g in
> > status bar ('Found in $provider' could be replaced by  'Found $book
> > written by $authors in $provider) or the book list view could scroll
> > automatically or both.
> 
> When it's working correctly, it should say "Found at $provider" and
> then select the newly-added book and say "$book.title selected", which
> seems to be pretty much what you're looking for.
Indeed.

> I've applied your pseudomarc patch, it's in SVN r1137 if you need
> motivation to check out the SVN repository.
Thanks.

> I'm holding off on the other patches, since I'm not sure why you're
> getting these problems for no-author-books when I'm not.
Seems it is working correctly now, so no need to commit these.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Martin Sucha

From internaciulo at gmail.com  Thu Feb 18 13:03:59 2010
From: internaciulo at gmail.com (Jean-Michel)
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:03:59 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Fwd: I can't get alexandria svn to get anything
In-Reply-To: <1a1eb9691002180931j5df403ddufe738498dee52c4c@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1a1eb9691002180931j5df403ddufe738498dee52c4c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1a1eb9691002181003v3362d5a0of2435f621503360c@mail.gmail.com>

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From: Jean-Michel FAYARD <jean-michel.fayard at bertrou.eu>
Date: 2010/2/18
Subject: I can't get alexandria svn to get anything
To: alexandria-list at rubyforge.org


Hi !

Alexandria looks nice, but it does not find any isbns on my ubuntu 9.10
running the svn version

The logs are in the attached file.


   Jean-Michel

PS: could it be possible to desactivate a given book provider ?
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From cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org  Thu Feb 18 20:14:13 2010
From: cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org (Cathal Mc Ginley)
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:14:13 +0000
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Fwd: I can't get alexandria svn to get
 anything
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References: <1a1eb9691002180931j5df403ddufe738498dee52c4c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:03:59 +0100
Jean-Michel <internaciulo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alexandria looks nice, but it does not find any isbns on my ubuntu
> 9.10 running the svn version

If you already have the necessary dependencies installed
(libhpricot-ruby & libhtmlentities-ruby for example) then it could be a
few things:

1) Look for the non-buggy version of libhpricot-ruby
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=205&aid=27168&atid=863

2) Make sure you have a Amazon AWS account to enable Amazon support
(http://aws.amazon.com) Enter your details into the Alexandria
preferences.


> PS: could it be possible to desactivate a given book provider ?

This is possible with the latest svn release (and with 0.6.6-beta1).
Just uncheck the checkbox in the preferences dialog.

   -   Cathal.
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From internaciulo at gmail.com  Thu Feb 18 20:55:12 2010
From: internaciulo at gmail.com (Jean-Michel)
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:55:12 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Fwd: I can't get alexandria svn to get
	anything
In-Reply-To: <20100219011413.4ccd4071@jadzia>
References: <1a1eb9691002180931j5df403ddufe738498dee52c4c@mail.gmail.com> 
	<1a1eb9691002181003v3362d5a0of2435f621503360c@mail.gmail.com> 
	<20100219011413.4ccd4071@jadzia>
Message-ID: <1a1eb9691002181755w18550ad4n5a2e8c182adaf86@mail.gmail.com>

>
> 1) Look for the non-buggy version of libhpricot-ruby
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=205&aid=27168&atid=863
>

Thanks, it works like a charm now !

May I suggest a different UI to import a list of ISBNs ?

It would be a lot better if we kneew what happens under the hood, since it
take a lot of time
So it would be great to have a web-like interface :

  Searching for ISBN xxxxxx....         Found on Amazon
  Searchgin for ISBN yyyyyy...          Found on Amazon
  Searchgin for ISBN yyyyyy...          Found on Barnes & Nobles
  Searchgin for ISBN yyyyyy...          Not found  (in red)
  Searching for ISBN zzzzzz....         Searching on amazon...



Thanks for the great work !
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From internaciulo at gmail.com  Fri Feb 19 09:41:48 2010
From: internaciulo at gmail.com (Jean-Michel)
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:41:48 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Hello, me again :)
Message-ID: <1a1eb9691002190641q5d5b4678q94d69907ba06b7d7@mail.gmail.com>

Alexandria crashes when importing the file isbn.txt


cheers,

   jean-michel
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0486424537
0060984031
0688074022
0060516054
978-0743274715
978-9642558070
978-0827607095
978-0140445800
0771091508
2742764941
2890214397
0679810307
0486278050
1551110431
0936347392
978-0738205373
0674000773
2709802333
1551928035
0711902569
0312318448
978-0374399979
978-1440049408
978-1400031047
1876175826
0312003080
0771075863
1573220558
978-1594771835
978-0684848280
0969318503
1416536035
0486282724
0156002167
0743249666
0140126864
0140009728
0140441522
0140431179
978-2253155805
978-2714309921
2877304809
289406022X
2253160709
978-2070347810
2253160660
978-2229000209
2290315885
2070319962
978-2020220453
978-2756100685
0864422288
978-2352871330
2070304051
0618918248
978-8120831056
2070360040 
2842742540
978-0966075007
978-0824818159
8971415541 
0838451756
978-0471272144
2091811076
8915030338
2091812277
8175362804
978-2845822313
0140183485
0534950973
8121511208
978-2830709414
8175363959
8120803337
8971415533
8121511275
0944613403
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ImportDialog opened.
Added ImportFilter #<Gtk::FileFilter:0xb44b503c> -- D?tection automatique
Added ImportFilter #<Gtk::FileFilter:0xb44b4fc4> -- Archive Tellico XML (*.bc, *.tc)
Added ImportFilter #<Gtk::FileFilter:0xb44b4f74> -- Liste d'ISBNs (*.txt)
Added ImportFilter #<Gtk::FileFilter:0xb44b4f24> -- GoodReads CSV
Going forward with filter: D?tection automatique
Selected: import_autodetect -- isbn -- /home/jmfayard/T?l?chargements/isbn.txt
["isbn", "/home/jmfayard/T?l?chargements/isbn.txt", #<Proc:0xb47be968@/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/dialogs/import_dialog.rb:144>, #<Proc:0xb47be5f8@/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/dialogs/import_dialog.rb:157>]
Filename is /home/jmfayard/T?l?chargements/isbn.txt and ext is .txt
Beginning import: isbn, /home/jmfayard/T?l?chargements/isbn.txt
Starting import_as_isbn_list... 
Trying line 0486424537
Trying line 0060984031
Trying line 0688074022
Trying line 0060516054
Trying line 978-0743274715
Trying line 978-9642558070
Trying line 978-0827607095
Trying line 978-0140445800
Trying line 0771091508
Trying line 2742764941
Trying line 2890214397
Trying line 0679810307
Trying line 0486278050
Trying line 1551110431
Trying line 0936347392
Trying line 978-0738205373
Trying line 0674000773
Trying line 2709802333
Trying line 1551928035
Trying line 0711902569
Trying line 0312318448
Trying line 978-0374399979
Trying line 978-1440049408
Trying line 978-1400031047
Trying line 1876175826
Trying line 0312003080
Trying line 0771075863
Trying line 1573220558
Trying line 978-1594771835
Trying line 978-0684848280
Trying line 0969318503
Alexandria::Library::InvalidISBNError
Trying line 1416536035
Trying line 0486282724
Trying line 0156002167
Trying line 0743249666
Trying line 0140126864
Trying line 0140009728
Trying line 0140441522
Trying line 0140431179
Trying line 978-2253155805
Trying line 978-2714309921
Trying line 2877304809
Trying line 289406022X
Trying line 2253160709
Trying line 978-2070347810
Trying line 2253160660
Trying line 978-2229000209
Alexandria::Library::InvalidISBNError
Trying line 2290315885
Trying line 2070319962
Trying line 978-2020220453
Trying line 978-2756100685
Trying line 0864422288
Trying line 978-2352871330
Trying line 2070304051
Trying line 0618918248
Trying line 978-8120831056
Trying line 2070360040 
Trying line 2842742540
Trying line 978-0966075007
Trying line 978-0824818159
Trying line 8971415541 
Trying line 0838451756
Trying line 978-0471272144
Trying line 2091811076
Trying line 8915030338
Trying line 2091812277
Trying line 8175362804
Trying line 978-2845822313
Trying line 0140183485
Trying line 0534950973
Trying line 8121511208
Trying line 978-2830709414
Trying line 8175363959
Trying line 8120803337
Trying line 8971415533
Trying line 8121511275
Trying line 0944613403
Isbn list: [["0486424537", "0486424537"], ["0060984031", "0060984031"], ["0688074022", "0688074022"], ["0060516054", "0060516054"], ["978-0743274715", "0743274717"], ["978-9642558070", "9642558076"], ["978-0827607095", "0827607091"], ["978-0140445800", "0140445803"], ["0771091508", "0771091508"], ["2742764941", "2742764941"], ["2890214397", "2890214397"], ["0679810307", "0679810307"], ["0486278050", "0486278050"], ["1551110431", "1551110431"], ["0936347392", "0936347392"], ["978-0738205373", "0738205370"], ["0674000773", "0674000773"], ["2709802333", "2709802333"], ["1551928035", "1551928035"], ["0711902569", "0711902569"], ["0312318448", "0312318448"], ["978-0374399979", "0374399972"], ["978-1440049408", "1440049408"], ["978-1400031047", "1400031044"], ["1876175826", "1876175826"], ["0312003080", "0312003080"], ["0771075863", "0771075863"], ["1573220558", "1573220558"], ["978-1594771835", "1594771839"], ["978-0684848280", "0684848287"], ["0969318503", nil], ["1416536035", "1416536035"], ["0486282724", "0486282724"], ["0156002167", "0156002167"], ["0743249666", "0743249666"], ["0140126864", "0140126864"], ["0140009728", "0140009728"], ["0140441522", "0140441522"], ["0140431179", "0140431179"], ["978-2253155805", "2253155802"], ["978-2714309921", "2714309925"], ["2877304809", "2877304809"], ["289406022X", "289406022X"], ["2253160709", "2253160709"], ["978-2070347810", "2070347818"], ["2253160660", "2253160660"], ["978-2229000209", nil], ["2290315885", "2290315885"], ["2070319962", "2070319962"], ["978-2020220453", "2020220458"], ["978-2756100685", "2756100684"], ["0864422288", "0864422288"], ["978-2352871330", "2352871336"], ["2070304051", "2070304051"], ["0618918248", "0618918248"], ["978-8120831056", "8120831055"], ["2070360040 ", "2070360040"], ["2842742540", "2842742540"], ["978-0966075007", "0966075005"], ["978-0824818159", "0824818156"], ["8971415541 ", "8971415541"], ["0838451756", "0838451756"], ["978-0471272144", "0471272140"], ["2091811076", "2091811076"], ["8915030338", "8915030338"], ["2091812277", "2091812277"], ["8175362804", "8175362804"], ["978-2845822313", "2845822316"], ["0140183485", "0140183485"], ["0534950973", "0534950973"], ["8121511208", "8121511208"], ["978-2830709414", "2830709411"], ["8175363959", "8175363959"], ["8120803337", "8120803337"], ["8971415533", "8971415533"], ["8121511275", "8121511275"], ["0944613403", "0944613403"]]
Amazon lookup
#<Alexandria::UI::ImportDialog:0xb44b54c4 ptr=0x99138e0> Percentage: 0,012987012987013
Amazon lookup
#<Alexandria::UI::ImportDialog:0xb44b54c4 ptr=0x99138e0> Percentage: 0,0194805194805195
Amazon lookup
#<Alexandria::UI::ImportDialog:0xb44b54c4 ptr=0x99138e0> Percentage: 0,025974025974026
Amazon lookup
#<Alexandria::UI::ImportDialog:0xb44b54c4 ptr=0x99138e0> Percentage: 0,0324675324675325
Amazon lookup
#<Alexandria::UI::ImportDialog:0xb44b54c4 ptr=0x99138e0> Percentage: 0,038961038961039
Amazon lookup
BarnesAndNoble lookup
Requesting http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?ISBSRC=Y&ISBN=9789642558070

From brian.mckee at gmail.com  Tue Feb 23 23:00:49 2010
From: brian.mckee at gmail.com (Brian McKee)
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:00:49 -0500
Subject: [Alexandria-list] alexandria won't launch - PPA for Ubuntu Karmic
Message-ID: <cc77dabe1002232000h743ad08cw1a85e04b91dcaf3b@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All

I'm running Ubuntu Karmic Netbook Remix.  I'm trying to install and
run Alexandria from the PPA provided.
It installed ok, but crashes when I try and run it.
I ran in a terminal with the --debug options - output below.
What's the best way around this?

Brian


==> alexandria --debug
W, [2010-02-23T22:55:05.712836 #7053]  WARN -- [Cls
Alexandria::BookProviders]: Can't load 'hpricot' and 'htmlentities',
hence AdLibris, Barnes & Noble, DeaStore, Proxis, Siciliano, Thalia
and Worldcat book providers will not be available
D, [2010-02-23T22:55:06.691006 #7053] DEBUG -- : Initializing Alexandria...
I, [2010-02-23T22:55:06.691349 #7053]  INFO -- [Mod Alexandria::UI]:
Initializing app_datadir...
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb: line 34
   GLib-WARNING **:g_set_prgname() called multiple times
   I, [2010-02-23T22:55:06.743629 #7053]  INFO -- [Mod
Alexandria::UI]: Initializing Icons...
   ==========================
   I, [2010-02-23T22:55:06.762730 #7053]  INFO -- [Mod
Alexandria::UI]: Starting MainApp...
   ==========================
   I, [2010-02-23T22:55:06.763247 #7053]  INFO -- <Obj
Alexandria::UI::MainApp>: Starting MainApp
   I, [2010-02-23T22:55:07.159461 #7053]  INFO -- <Obj
Alexandria::UI::UIManager>: Loading Libraries...
   Exception `Errno::ENOENT' at
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/smart_library.rb:54 - No such file or
directory - /home/brian/.alexandria/.smart_libraries
   Exception `Errno::EEXIST' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243 -
File exists - /home/brian/.alexandria/.smart_libraries
   Exception `Errno::EEXIST' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243 -
File exists - /home/brian/.alexandria/.smart_libraries
   Exception `Errno::EEXIST' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243 -
File exists - /home/brian/.alexandria/.smart_libraries
   Exception `Errno::EEXIST' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243 -
File exists - /home/brian/.alexandria/.smart_libraries
   Exception `Errno::EEXIST' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243 -
File exists - /home/brian/.alexandria/.smart_libraries
   Exception `Errno::EEXIST' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243 -
File exists - /home/brian/.alexandria/.smart_libraries
   Exception `Errno::EEXIST' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243 -
File exists - /home/brian/.alexandria/.smart_libraries
   Exception `Errno::EEXIST' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243 -
File exists - /home/brian/.alexandria/.smart_libraries
   Exception `Errno::EEXIST' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243 -
File exists - /home/brian/.alexandria/.smart_libraries
   Exception `NameError' at
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/book_providers.rb:373 - uninitialized
constant Alexandria::BookProviders::WebsiteBasedProvider
   -----------------------
   Alexandria just crashed
   -----------------------
   Timestamp: Tue Feb 23 22:55:07 -0500 2010
   Message: uninitialized constant
Alexandria::BookProviders::WebsiteBasedProvider
   Backtrace:
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/book_providers.rb:373:in `update_priority'
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/book_providers.rb:368:in `each'
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/book_providers.rb:368:in `update_priority'
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/book_providers.rb:358:in `initialize'
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/singleton.rb:94:in `new'
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/singleton.rb:94:in `instance'
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/book_providers.rb:412:in `method_missing'
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/callbacks.rb:357:in `connect_signals'
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/ui_manager.rb:88:in `setup_callbacks'
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/ui_manager.rb:44:in `initialize'
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:56:in `new'
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:56:in `initialize'
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/singleton.rb:94:in `new'
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/singleton.rb:94:in `instance'
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:45:in `start_main_app'
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:56:in `main'
   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria.rb:40:in `main'
   /usr/bin/alexandria:34
   Release: 0.6.6(0.6.6-beta1)
   Uname -a: Linux twinstar 2.6.31-19-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan
28 01:26:53 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

-- 
Hey, it's your computer.... isn't it?

From cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org  Wed Feb 24 07:45:37 2010
From: cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org (Cathal Mc Ginley)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:45:37 +0000
Subject: [Alexandria-list] alexandria won't launch - PPA for Ubuntu
 Karmic
In-Reply-To: <cc77dabe1002232000h743ad08cw1a85e04b91dcaf3b@mail.gmail.com>
References: <cc77dabe1002232000h743ad08cw1a85e04b91dcaf3b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20100224124537.54457e35@jadzia>

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This was reported on the Tracker back in January. It's bug #27622
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=205&aid=27622&atid=863
The best solution is to install libhpricot-ruby and libhtmlentities-ruby

The crash behaviour has been fixed since the 0.6.6-beta1 release.  I
suppose I should work on putting out the 0.6.6 final release soon, now
that my arm is working again.

   -   C.
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From brian.mckee at gmail.com  Wed Feb 24 13:35:39 2010
From: brian.mckee at gmail.com (Brian McKee)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:35:39 -0500
Subject: [Alexandria-list] alexandria won't launch - PPA for Ubuntu
	Karmic
In-Reply-To: <20100224124537.54457e35@jadzia>
References: <cc77dabe1002232000h743ad08cw1a85e04b91dcaf3b@mail.gmail.com>
	<20100224124537.54457e35@jadzia>
Message-ID: <cc77dabe1002241035l5969634dn25877131fb509340@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Cathal Mc Ginley
<cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org> wrote:
> This was reported on the Tracker back in January. It's bug #27622
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=205&aid=27622&atid=863
> The best solution is to install libhpricot-ruby and libhtmlentities-ruby

Thank you Cathal for the information. I will try that tonight.
Knowing little about ruby I couldn't make too much out of that error message.

If rubyforge is the official bug tracker I'll look there first next time.

Brian
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