[Isis-users] about ABCD 2.0 and 3.0

[Ma.Mercedes MacLean]

Hola Egbert, es muy grato leer las novedades ABCD, teniendo en cuenta que
sabemos y sentimos las dificultades que vive Guilda. Y que a pesar de todo
habrá un ABCD 1.5.1, 
Tambien es grato saber que continúas trabajando en la version 2.0.
Respecto a la versión que comentas del trabajo de los cubanos.... a veces
pienso que si bien se va a lograr un excelente soft, no hay que olvidar que
los bibliotecarios que son las personas que lo usan no siempre programan y/o
tienen al lado un desarrollador que los ayude y si lo tienen a veces es un
informático que no sabe nada de Bibliotecas y Bases de Datos de libros y
documentos.
En resumen no tienen ni un Egbert ni un Ernesto...
Igual siempre es cuestión de probar, trabajar y preguntar, siempre la ayuda
aparece. Mil gracias a Guilda y a ti por este gran esfuerzo.
Yo soy fans del ABCD y seguiré vuestros pasos con vuestra ayuda.
Abrazo
María Mercedes MacLean
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Hello Egbert, is very pleasing to read the novelties ABCD, keeping in mind
that we know and we feel the difficulties that Guilda lives. And that in
spite of everything there will be an ABCD 1.5.1,   
It is also pleasing to know that you continue working in the version 2.0.  
Regarding the version that you comment of the work of the Cubans.... I
sometimes think that although it will achieve an excellent soft, it is not
necessary to forget that the librarians that are people that use it don't
always program and/or they have to the side a developer that helps them and
if they have it is sometimes a computer specialist that doesn't know
anything about Libraries and Databases of books and documents.  
In summary they don't have neither an Egbert neither an Ernesto...  
Same it is always question of proving, to work and to ask, the help always
appears. Thousand thanks to Guilda and to you for this great effort.  
I am fans of the ABCD and I will follow your steps with your help.  
Happiness
María Mercedes MacLean
gaspyy60 at gmail.com
gaspyy2002 at yahoo.com.ar
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De: isis-users [mailto:isis-users-bounces+mamemaclean=gmail.com at iccisis.org]
En nombre de De Smet Egbert
Enviado el: lunes, 16 de enero de 2017 07:17 a.m.
Para: isis-users at iccisis.org
Asunto: [Isis-users] about ABCD 2.0 and 3.0

Dear colleagues,

it has been a long while since I last communicated on the new versions of
ABCD, largely compensated for however by Guilda making a lot of efforts last
year, despite her difficult situation in a difficult country, working on
ABCD 1.5.1, which might be the last version released in the 1.x generation
of ABCD. A long list of very useful new features (e-mail reminders, barcode
configuration and printing, new parameters in abcd.def and
config_extended.php...) have been added so the software development
certainly has not been stalled.

>From my side I have been busy - and still will be busy for a while - in
developing version 2.0 while as from tomorrow a more intensive effort will
be done working (with 2 Cuban visitors) on ABCD 3.0 (based on J-ISIS). I
failed to have it ready as hoped for as a New Year present to the community,
apologies requested. But some of the new features have been tested largely
and for quite some time now in partial 2.0 installations in real libraries,
so that was useful anyway.
On ABCD 2.0 I would like to mention the following issues : 
- the main new features are resp. : 
   * Unicode for the interface(with e.g. Amharic and Sinhalese interfaces in
the process of creation, Arabic also being considered) but also for contents
indexing and searching of non-Latin alphabets;
   * full-text databases with not only links but also full-text indexing and
pre-view, with both batch- and interactive creation of collections, kind of
a mix of dSpace and Greenstone;
   * new module : Online Document Delivery System (ODDS), accessible from
ABCD Site
   * mySite (status consultation for library-users) accessible from ABCD
Site for both standard and EmpWeb circulation systems.
- a lot of efforts already have been made to remain fully 1.5.1 compatible
- we plan to only provide 64-bits packages for Windows and Linux, no longer
32-bits (however running in 32-bits would still be possible but require e.g.
different libraries for php_yaz and in Linux for the CISIS-utilities used)
- we plan to no longer provide Apache and PHP in the Windows package but
rather rely on installers like wamp and xamp; both need only a small
ABCD-virtualhost file to be copied from the ABCD-installation package into
w/xamp and allow more flexibility re new versions of PHP and Apache-service
management.
- we want to have ABCD2.0 fully compatible with PHP7 since support for
PHP5.x (currently 5.6) is announced to be terminated and considerable
performance gains are reported with PHP7; we still have problems with
Secs-Web however running in PHP7 (as it uses several external libraries
which needed to be upgraded : smarty, yui...) and this has delayed once
again the planned final release of ABCD 2.0. Our concern here is : who
actually uses Secs-Web and how bad would it be to release ABCD 2.0 without a
working Secs-Web module ? It should of course still work with PHP5.6 since
nothing has changed there and it worked well.
So I invite all of you to react on the question 'who needs still 32-bits ?',
'who uses Secs-Web' and how urgent is a PHP7-compatible version ?

About ABCD 3.0 I have to be brief : the Cuban team working on it has started
testing it in Cuban universities but refrained from making it available to
testers outside their own controlled context, including me. In one month
from now I will need to decide, based on the progress during the
working-sessions of the Cubans with me until then, on whether or not the
idea of a real FOSS ABCD3.0 fully benefiting from the (CDS/)ISIS philosophy
and technology is still on.
ABCD 3.0 should - since it uses J-ISIS and the new underlying technology of
Berkeley DB and Lucene with Java - contain all ABCD 2.0 features and
capabilities (e.g. full-text and Unicode). Database definitions and
management will be used from the already excellent tools on these in  J-ISIS
(which by the way comes already with its own WWW-interface in addition to
its rich desktop client), so ABCD 3.0 will focus more on the specific
library management features.

Wishing you all a nice - or better at least - new year 2017.

Egbert de Smet
Universiteit Antwerpen
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