[bt-devel] 64-bit Personal Commentary problems

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

Quoting "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com>:
> I am running Bibletime 1.6.4 out of the Ubuntu repositories on fully
> patched Hardy (8.0.4 I believe) with libsword6 version 1.5.9-8 also out
> of the Ubuntu repositories on an AMD64 laptop.
>
> There is still a problem where personal comments are saved with file
> names that are either much larger than expected (I believe they are
> supposed to be a numeric sequence) or contain bad characters.  I do not
> know for sure but this smells like a 32 bit to 64 bit conversion problem
> with bit manipulation.

Both Martin and I have now new 64bit machines so we have to look at  
this sooner or later :) But you probably guessed right that this is a  
Sword problem rather than BibleTime. It's also possible that it's been  
fixed in sword because 1.5.9 is quite old.

>
> Also, once I create the comment, I cannot edit it.  I can input the
> edits but, if I leave the verse and return, the changes are gone.  This
> is not a permissions issue as you can see from the file list below.

We made many bugfixes for 1.6.5 which you can find packaged for  
Kubuntu. Just follow the instructions in a news item in  
bibletime.info. I don't remember if this bug was fixed then but it was  
a known bug.

--Eeli