[sword-devel] New CD ISO, binaries, misc. stuff

Troy A. Griffitts sword-devel@crosswire.org
Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:38:39 -0700


Joachim,
	YEAH, I planned on updated after getting some test reports and fixing
any minor things.  I'm planning on making a new CD this evening.  Will
this change allow you to update the bibletimebase.tar.gz or the bin/x86
stuff?

	Thanks!

		-Troy.



Joachim Ansorg wrote:
> 
> Hi Troy!
> 
> Great!
> 
> Since KDE 2.1 is out now I updated the sources in GOODIES/misc.linux/KDE-2.1
> and removed the dir of the KDE-2.01 sources.
> Is it possible to recreate the iso to ship the new KDE?
> I uploaded the libs, base, support and bindings. They are required for
> BibleTime 0.31 and later.
> 
> Thank you!
> Joachim
> 
> > NEW CD
> >
> > There is a new CD ISO on the site.  If you have the capacity, please
> > download the iso, burn a CD and try it out.  Let me know if there are
> > any nuances in your particular environment.  I plan to test on RedHat
> > 6.2, 7.0, Windows NT, and 98.  Testing on other platforms is highly
> > valued!  Thanks for all the hard work that went into this latest
> > release.
> >
> >       ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/iso/sword20010225.iso.gz
> >       ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/iso/sword20010225.iso.md5
> >
> >
> > NEW WINDOWS TEST RELEASE
> >
> > There are new Windows binaries available on the CD in the BETA
> > directory, and also on the alpha site:
> >
> >
> > http://www.crosswire.org/sword/ALPHAcckswwlkrfre22034820285912/alpha/sword.
> >exe
> >
> > This hasn't changed much feature-wise to the last test release, but
> > should be much more stable.  You'll still need the locales.zip in this
> > directory if you are testing over a pre 1.5.0 install.  There is also a
> > new InstallMgr.exe in this directory that made it onto the CD.  It
> > transfers in passive mode allow more people access over firewalls,
> > should be much more stable, and handles our new Category= entry for the
> > newer modules.
> >
> >
> > MODULE REVIEWERS
> >
> > There was some discussion on the list a few weeks back about banding a
> > team to review modules.  In case anyone hasn't noticed, we're now
> > placing our new modules initially in a section entitled something like:
> > Cults, Unorthodox, or Not Yet Reviewed.  If you feel gifted in orthodox
> > apologetics/discernment, please post your feedback on any modules that
> > are in this section and we'll see if this is a good way to decide what
> > gets promoted out.  If the traffic gets too high, we'll see about
> > opening a newsgroup on our news server.  I've asked a few local experts
> > to also give us their advice:
> >
> >       Paul Scozzafava - Apologetics Professor, Calvary Chapel School of
> > Ministry, NM
> >       Dennis Wretlind, Ph.D., Professor of Biblical Languages, Phoenix
> > Seminary
> >               (yet to commit)
> >
> > This will give all you pastors and theologians out there a much needed
> > area in which to participate.
> >
> >
> > Thanks again!  Lots of stuff is moving right along these day.  It's hard
> > to keep up.
> >
> > Remembering the _extreme Grace_ that brought the _Perfect God_ to die a
> > _terrible death_, all for such _an enemy_ as me.  Now those are
> > extremes!  Phil II.; Romans V.  :)
> >
> >               -Troy.
> 
> --
> Joachim Ansorg
> BibleTime - www.bibletime.de - info@bibletime.de
> BibleTime is an easy to use Bible study tool for KDE / Linux.