[jsword-devel] Distribute Bible Texts

[DM Smith]

Jonathan Morgan wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:06 PM, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>> Tonny Kohar wrote:
>>  > Hi,
>>  >
>>  > Is it allowed to distribute some bible texts or commentaries, etc with
>>  > the program installer ?
>>  >
>>  > As you probably know, I am creating alternative GUI front end for
>>  > JSword project and thinking a possibility of distributing some bible
>>  > text with the program installer, so end user could start
>>  > exploring/study bible when the program start. If he/she need more
>>  > books then he/she could download additional books from the known site
>>  > eg; crosswire module addins.
>>  >
>>  > The purpose or intent is to distribute some books (not all), so the
>>  > user does not represented with empty screen because no books
>>  > available.
>>  In addition to what Peter said:
>>  The typical bundle is KJV, Robinsons, Strong's Greek, and Strong's
>>  Hebrew. This provides the user the richest study opportunity as the KJV
>>  is keyed to Strong's Numbers and Morphology. These are all free to
>>  distribute.
>>     
>
> It depends on who your target is.  This may be a "typical" bundle for
> those interested in original language studies.  It is certainly not
> appropriate as a typical bundle for those who just want to read the
> Bible.  And this is why it is often a bad idea distributing any
> modules at all: most of the things that you distribute will be wrong
> for more users than they will be right, IMHO.
>   

That is why BibleDesktop does not bundle modules.

Earlier, people complained that BD did not make any sense the first time 
they opened the program as it was empty, except for a built in daily 
reading plan. And that plan was worthless without a Bible installed. So 
people were asking for a bundle.

So, upon startup BD puts up a dialog, when no Bibles are installed, 
asking whether the user would like to install one. If yes, BD brings up 
the Book Installer. Since we did this, we have not had any requests for 
a bundle.

In Him,
    DM