[jsword-devel] Xiphos repo download config help

[Peter von Kaehne]

Hi

Are you aware of the repository master list in sword?

Peter
On 10/02/11 13:16, Martin Denham wrote:
> From what you say it would be nice to be able to filter repository
> modules according to how mature modules are e.g. untested, okay, robust.
> 
> Occasionally I consider making a list of reliable modules that
> transcends a particular repository.  For example it might possibly
> include the modules in CrossWire repo, some from Beta and some from
> Xiphos.  Alternatively modules could have a reliability ranking
> associated with them e.g robust, okay, untested.  That way the
> 'experimental' modules would not provide simple users with a bad
> experience and the desirable and robust modules would be made available.
> 
> In some ways apps already do this - And Bible needs to filter the
> English Dictionary because it is too large for mobiles and causes errors
> it also ignores Gen books because it doesn't support that format yet.  I
> believe PS also does some filtering of modules.
> 
> Regards
> Martin
> 
> On 4 February 2011 00:28, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org
> <mailto:dmsmith at crosswire.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     On Feb 3, 2011, at 5:16 PM, Martin Denham wrote:
> 
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I am not familiar with the different module download frameworks
>     used but I was hoping to add the contents of Xiphos to the list of
>     modules downloadable by And Bible.
>     >
>     > Can you see any issues with this?
>     Yes. Last time I tried I found that the assumptions that JSword made
>     about names being in all lower case, which is true in the CrossWire
>     repositories, is not true in the Xiphos repository. I never brought
>     it up to Karl because it was not a pressing issue.
> 
>     Either Xiphos repository needs to change or JSword needs to accommodate.
> 
>     It might work now. Haven't tested it for a while.
> 
> 
>     >
>     > Could somebody tell me what download parameters to use.  I have
>     unsuccessfully tried entering values from the Module Repositories
>     wiki page into Bible Desktop.
>     >
>     Host: ftp.xiphos.org <http://ftp.xiphos.org>
>     Catalog Directory: /sword
>     Zip Directory: /sword/zip
> 
>     For others see: http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Module_Repositories
> 
>     > Can I put those parameters into InstallManager.plugin?
> 
>     I recommend: not until it works.
> 
> 
>     >
>     > I was planning to add Xiphos but seeing all the modules in
>     CrossWire beta I am wondering if they are really beta i.e. unstable
>     and whether to add them too.
>     When I added beta to JSword the modules there were pretty good. Now
>     many of them are experimental. If I had to do it over again, I
>     wouldn't have added it.
> 
>     >
>     > Thanks
>     > Martin
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