[jsword-devel] Incremental improvement

[Joe Walker]

Hi,

I've not updated to get this, but I flicked over the code in
jsword-svn and it looks like we no longer show in the book list and
books that are already installed.
This is probably good, but there is a possibility that the book has
been updated in the server, in which case the option to download is
good. I'm sure it is possible to work out if a module is new (because
Sword C++ does it) and I have a vague feeling there is a version
number type thing in the conf file that we could check.

Thanks,

Joe.

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:10:58 -0400, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am about to check in an incremental improvement in the download of
> modules.
> 
> I have changed the code to get the size of the module and to ask the
> user whether they want to download it.
> And I removed the two popup dialogs.
> 
> It could be improved more:
> 1) I present the size as so may KB. This could be adjusted to show MB
> rather than thousands of KB.
> 2) It does not let the user know the installed size. I noticed that a
> jsp on the Modules site gives the installed size. In the case of
> uncompressed modules this can be pretty significant.
> 3) It does not estimate the time for the download. This can be done by
> timing the download of the mods.d.tar.gz file and estimating from there.
> 4) It does not have a progress bar for the initial install or a way to
> cancel the install (which is part of the progress bar). (I think that
> this is needed).
> 5) It does not show the sizes of the modules in the tree. This is not
> trivial, given that it needs to be gotten one at a time and stored in a
> useful place.
> 
> I am still working on:
> 1) adding "Language" to the tree.
> 2) Automatically downloading the mods.d.tar.gz on startup and possibly
> when it changes (I think that this may be easy.)
> 
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