Some more packaging things

Hi all,

I finally decided to make a small script to build snapshots packages of
the trunk. Since it looks like getting a correct internet access at home
will take ages (thanks to BT, I still don't even have a phone line after 2
months), which means I won't be able to provide packages, I thought some
might be interested by getting the script. Robby might be
interested to use it as well, whether to provide svn snapshots or use it
for actual releases.

Anyway, if you want to build packages, just put the script somewhere
useful (say, ~/bin), and run it from an svn checkout of the trunk. In any
case, please be aware that the trunk is still in development and
incomplete. So backup your data, and don't blame Robby or me if it
crashes, destroys the collection you didn't backup, eats your dog, or
triggers a worldwide financial crisis. Though if you find bugs of things
not working as expected, don't hesitate to report them :)

That's about it for today.

Regis

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Tellico 1.3.3 does not store ISBN-13

When looking up books with an ISBN-13 and then saving them to the
collection, I've found that this version of tellico is storing them as
ISBN-10 instead. Tellico should probably always use ISBN-13 over ISBN-10
when available, but should *definitely* use it when the full number is
given as part of the actual lookup.

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Re: Tellico 1.3.3 does not store ISBN-13

Todd A. Jacobs <nospam@...> writes:

> 
> When looking up books with an ISBN-13 and then saving them to the
> collection, I've found that this version of tellico is storing them as
> ISBN-10 instead. Tellico should probably always use ISBN-13 over ISBN-10
> when available,

I do not agree on this point, for further researches the isbn10 number could
be the only way of finding a certain object on the internet and other medium.

> but should *definitely* use it when the full number is
> given as part of the actual lookup.

I'm with you now, but maybe tellico should store both of them when given, 
the amount of extra data is minimum and for the cataloging purpose is optimum,
I think.
In addition I suppose it will not require much coding.

Debian Package of the Day: Tellico

Hello,

Just in case you have not seen it:
http://debaday.debian.net/2009/01/04/tellico-collection-manager-for-books-videos-music-and-a-whole-lot-more/

Cheers,

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Encoding in external applications, entry updates and more...

 Happy new year everybody !

 I am currently (or recently have been) working on various updates of
scripts that will be available soon.
 Therefore I finally ask the few question I was wondering on for ages :
	 
- Regarding encoding, how are sent the parameters to external application ?
I have not understood what encoding uses tellico when sending parameters
neither have I found how to re-encode in the script.
When including accents in arguments, the result obtained by tellico was
never the same as when typing "python script.py args" on the console. 
As a consequence, I have never been able to use accents in query whatever
the script used (mine's or other's). Therefore, it prevents update to work
for entries containing characters with accents (because XML results do
contain accents without issue). Is there an hidden option to specify how to
send arguments to scripts ?
I use UTF-8 encoding as default, last Tellico version, KDE 3.5 on Mandriva
2008.0 or 2009.

- I have recently noticed that update now works for custom and comics
collections, as I was asking for a while ago (
http://www.nabble.com/Updating-entries-does-not-get-information-td11982525.html
here ).
I checked that my scripts (for boardgames and french comics) do work : they
worked fine. Great, thanks ! 
(I did not noticed the information in the changelog.)
How does update now works ?
	
Now my little wishlist :

Re: Debian Package of the Day: Tellico

On Sunday 04 January 2009, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just in case you have not seen it:
> http://debaday.debian.net/2009/01/04/tellico-collection-manager-for-books
>-videos-music-and-a-whole-lot-more/

Cool, thanks!

Robby

Re: Tellico 1.3.3 does not store ISBN-13

On Sunday 04 January 2009, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> When looking up books with an ISBN-13 and then saving them to the
> collection, I've found that this version of tellico is storing them as
> ISBN-10 instead. Tellico should probably always use ISBN-13 over ISBN-10
> when available, but should *definitely* use it when the full number is
> given as part of the actual lookup.

It's a little tricky. As far as I can tell, if you do an isbn13 lookup on 
amazon, the search result is correct but contains the isbn10 value. So 
Tellico would need to special-case the isbn field and overwrite the amazon 
search result. I'm not sure I want to do that.

If you enter an isbn13, it should be saved as an isbn13. If that's not the 
case, tell me the specific version of Tellico and the specific isbn value 
that is not working for you.

Thanks!
Robby

INIST-CNRS : Tellico qualifies among 20 bibliography management softwares

The Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST) of the French
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) "has been designing and
developing services to facilitate access to and valorization of scientific
information produced by international basic and applied research
communities."
Home page in english : http://international.inist.fr/

A project of evaluation of softwares dealing with bibliography is in
progress now (started june 2008). This project is called ECLORE : Evaluation
et comparaison de logiciels de gestion de références bibliographiques
(evaluation and comparison of bibliography management softwares)
French site : http://eclore.veille.inist.fr/
Tellico is qualified and is to be evaluated against a (long) list of
criteria.
(in french only, unfortunately)
http://eclore.veille.inist.fr/spip.php?article29

The aim for the project is to help users (researchers, documentalists,
students) to choose softwares to manage large quantities of bibliography. 

I'm not sure what the use of being recommanded by the CNRS could be, but I
suppose it should at least bring new users, at least among researchers
working under linux, and maybe get some donation from CNRS ?

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Re: Encoding in external applications, entry updates and more...

I actually obtained some answer by myself :
The encoding is indeed that of the locale (UTF-8) in my case. Reencoding
args in latin-1 was sufficient to solve the issue, in python :

	loc=re.search('\.([^\.]*)',locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ''))
	if loc: 	
		local=loc.group(1)
	else:	
		local='UTF-8'
	arg=unicode(arg, local).encode('latin-1')

I will propose an update of the allocine.fr script. I have experimented the
same issue on the amazon script.

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Allocine.fr script update (0.5beta)

Here is a new version of the allocine.fr script : 
http://fischer.tellico.free.fr/allocine_090119.py allocine.fr 0.5beta 

Version 0.5 beta  2009-01-12 by R. Fischer
* Added fast search method, running full search only when few entries are
found.
* Added search by people and cross-search (people+title)
* Added complete distribution of actors and roles, Genres, Nationalities,
Producers, Composer & scenarists.
* Added update based on allocine URL, that results in faster execution.
* Fixed the plot field that returned a false answer when no plot is
available
* Fixed encoding issue (to be tested)

A more detailed description is available at the end of the file (french and
english).
I have successfully entered a few 300 films in a database, using all the
features available, and have no issues to report so far. Please test and
report any issue.

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