From: Andrew N. <and...@vi...> - 2008-07-03 14:20:57
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I fear we are making mountains out of molehills here. In order for a vendor to comply with VuFind, they will have to comply with Jangle - so from their perspective, it shouldn't make a difference. Especially if they adopt jangle themselves to make their DI products work with other systems - they would probably be more receptive to working with Jangle over VuFind. But again, this isn't happening tomorrow. The migration to Jangle would hopefully be seamless and create much more possibilities with VuFind. As I see it, only a win-win situation. > So the next logical question I have is have you made a firm decision to > no longer have individual drivers for ILS's and eventually have Jangle > do this all? And secondly, what happens when Yangle (yet another > next-generation library environment) comes out? Will VUFind support > that, too? Nothing is ever set in stone with Open Source software - but I see it as a clear decision to utilize Jangle as the ILS Layer for VuFind just as we use Solr for the searching layer. Andrew |