[jsword-devel] Xiphos repo download config help

[DM Smith]

On 02/14/2011 04:38 PM, Martin Denham wrote:
> 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?
Well, I haven't looked at it recently, but there were a lot of module in 
beta that were known to be bad. And the wiki page on the beta modules 
reflected this. And there were a lot of av11n modules.

There was talk of moving experimental modules to an experimental 
repository and av11n modules to an av11n repository.

If this were to happen then beta is fine to add.

In Him,
     DM

>
> 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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