[jsword-devel] Update

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Regarding the size of each module,  the other frontends transfer the 
files via FTP not HTTP, so they have the size available to them.  Maybe 
this helps.

	-Troy.



DM Smith wrote:
> Glad you had a good holiday.
> 
> I like your Dad's idea.
> 
> I went on one this weekend and showed BibleDesktop to everyone I could. 
> For the most part the response was polite (they don't do personal Bible 
> Study).
> 
> I did get some good feedback. Most of the machines were 128M ram on 
> dialup. This produced two distinctly different problems.
> First the size: Our program is run with -mx512M. This seemed to cause a 
> lot of disk thrashing. I had upped it to 512M because indexing caused 
> out of memory problems. It may be worthwhile to revisit this once Lucene 
> replaces ser.
> 
> WRT dialup, I had forgotten how painful it is. When running a fresh 
> installation of BD over dialup some "issues" came up:
> The initial screen asks whether bibles should be installed. (This is 
> fine.) When the user selects one and clicks on install (once they figure 
> out to load the index [which is already in our list of things to do]) 
> the program seems to hang. There is no progress meter. (It is on the 
> main window which is not shown yet). And it takes a long long time, 
> without warning.
> 
> So, here are some possible solutions (some are requests that other's made):
> Show a progress meter.
> Show the sizes of each of the modules (I don't think that this is that 
> easy.) Right now the only way I see is to do an http directory listing 
> and parsing the page. This is really ugly and easily broken by server 
> changes. I wonder if it would be possible to have it added to the confs. 
> (Troy, can you answer this?)
> Show an estimate of the time it will take and ask the user to confirm 
> the download. (When the mods.d.tar.gz is downloaded, we can time it and 
> use it for computing an estimated download rate.) This dialog could be 
> conditional, either a checkbox "Don't ask me again. Just do it" or 
> noticing the user has broadband and not putting up the dialog (e.g. the 
> estimated download time is < 15 seconds, or something like that)
> If we can monitor the download by noticing the number of bytes 
> transferred and compare that against the expected total bytes, we could 
> have a determinate progress meter.
> Add a cancel button and do a cleanup of an incomplete download.
> 
> 
> Joe Walker wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Back again - good holiday.
>> I've had a brief conversation with Mark about Scarab and bug systems
>> and we agree that Scarab is not complete enough. I've spoken to
>> Atlassian about Jira and they've granted us a free license! So I'll
>> install that fairly soon.
>>
>> My dad has been having a go with BibleDesktop and his comment was that
>> we should add the ability to search for strongs numbers. He said a
>> search he commonly wanted was along the lines show me where word X is
>> not translated as Y, which could be as simple as "H1045 -love". I'm
>> not sure how Lucene copes with multiple indexes, but it might be
>> something worth bearing in mind.
>>
>> Joe.
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