[bt-devel] SWORD and BibleTime on 64bit OSes (was: Re: Qt versions and Hardy Backport of Bibletime 2.0 )

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 20:54 -0700, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> 
> > Absolutely wonderful! I'm really looking forward to being able to use
> > BibleTime again assuming the 64 bit issues with Sword have been
> > resolved.
> 
> Well, I'm doing the main packaging work on a 64bit Ubuntu system here,
> so I think they must already be solved... are there any specific issues
> I could test for you, or any bug numbers in the SWORD bug tracker I can
> look up?
> 
> Basic use of SWORD and BibleTime on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 amd64 definitely
> works fine for me, but I'm not a BibleTime "power user".
> 
Thanks, Jonathan.  I don't recall the bug number and don't have it
handy. The issue was with the personal commentary.  When I moved to a 64
bit system years ago, new comments would have huge numbers, as if the
long ints had been left filled with ones - something I've seen in other
64 bit ports.  After a while, they no longer used numbers but started to
be prefaced with non-alphanumeric characters which caused them to be
unreadable in BibleTime. Thus, one would add a comment and it would
disappear. Thanks for all your work - John
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