[jsword-devel] Usability testing ...

[Mark Goodwin]

I think tar.jar is used by both installers to unpack mods.tar.gz -
perhaps removing it would be a bad idea.

mods.tar.gz is used to obtain the metadata on the available books; can
you think of an alternative way of getting this (preferably without
resorting to parsing html)?

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:25:42 -0400, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Joe,
> Would you comment out these jars in the bibledesktop.jnlp? (I think that
> this is easier than sending a patch for a single file.) My thought is
> that the jnlp is for the average user, zips for the tinkerer and cvs for
> developers. So jnlp should not bring down extras, the zips should
> contain all the jars and cvs, well, has everything.
> 
> <!-- These are optional. Probably of use only to developers at this point.
>     <jar href="lucene-1.3-final.jar"/>
>     <jar href="tar.jar"/>
> -->
> 
> Also, I am curious, what leads you to believe that it is a problem w/
> 1.4.1? I did check the jar and it is signed.
> 
> DM
> 
> 
> 
> Joe Walker wrote:
> 
> >I'm fairly sure this will be because you are using JDK 1.4.1. I think
> >JDK 1.4.2 will fix this problem - I suppose your only need to download
> >the JRE.
> >
> >I just tried to update the webstart config files to specify 1.4.2 or
> >greater but you can't go to that depth in the "version" attribute.
> >
> >I've added a note to the download page.
> >
> >Joe
> >
> >On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:50:59 -0000, Don Parris
> ><evangelinux at matheteuo.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Downloading from work on a Win XP box, and here's the error message I get:
> >>
> >>An error occurred while launching/running the application.
> >>
> >>Title: Bible Desktop
> >>Vendor: Crosswire Bible Society
> >>Category: Download Error
> >>
> >>Missing signed entry in resource: http://www.crosswire.org/bibledesktop/nightly/tar.jar
> >>
> >>
> >>From: Mark Goodwin <goodwinster at gmail.com>
> >>
> >>On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:59:58 -0000, Don Parris
> >><evangelinux at matheteuo.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I see about the bug.  Actually, I'm kind of glad it was a bug, not a design shortcoming. :)  I can probably wait for 0.9.8, though I suppose I could learn to use CVS.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>You don't need to learn CVS to use the nightly build;  just go to the
> >>download page, and download it via JNLP from 'Nightly releases'
> >>section.
> >>
> >>HTH.
> >>
> >>MarkG
> >>
> >
> >
> 
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