[jsword-devel] Xiphos repo download config help

[Martin Denham]

Hi DM,

You say you regret adding Beta but there are a lot of useful modules there.
 Do you advise me against adding the modules from Beta to the And Bible
download list?

Martin

On 4 February 2011 00:28, DM Smith <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
> 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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