Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 14 Jul 2008, at 13:06, CJoeB wrote:

> Eric Martin wrote:
>> Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good  
>> library management software (preferably in portage)?  My wife and  
>> I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and  
>> what books we are lending out to people so I figured this would be  
>> a good way to keep track.  Since it's for personal use it doesn't  
>> have to be anything big.  Preferably backended by MySQL as I  
>> already have a server running for MythTV and Amarok.
>>
>> I did a few eix searches for portage and came up empty handed, and  
>> sourceforge.net has a ton of stuff but I was wondering what other  
>> people use.
>
> Have you heard of Tellico.  It's a collection manager that can be  
> used for books, music, video ... whatever.  It allows you to enter  
> the name of the book, a graphic if you have one, rate the book and  
> indicate whether or not it's a gift, how much you paid for it and  
> if you have lent it out.  It *is* in Portage.
>
> Some information:
>
> http://periapsis.org/tellico/

The screenshots of this look really nice, however to me this seems  
like a really odd motivation for writing a program:

   I started developing it when I couldn't find a personal database
   program for KDE which didn't using a SQL backend.

What's wrong with an SQL backend that needs you to re-invent the  
wheel? I'm not saying there's a better collection manager out there,  
or that the author's in the wrong for doing it the way he has. But it  
just seems a little odd, and I'd love for him to explain his reasons  
more fully.

Stroller.

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