[sword-devel] Can modules be made? (was Re: How to?)

[Chris Little]

Tim,

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Tim Meneely wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I'm also a newbie, interested in contributing.  I'd like to make some modules 
> for my personal use, and I've been trying to figure out the system.  
> 
> First I read the module making guide at 
> http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/swordmodule/index.jsp.  After failing 
> in several more ambitious attempts, I took the existing RSV and converted it 
> to OSIS, and then tried to convert that OSIS back into a working module 
> without success.  The message below indicates I shouldn't go that way...

I'm sorry, I sould have been more explicit about the problems with our
OSIS converters.  First, that's the right page to follow.  We have two 
different OSIS import tools.  xml2gbs is used to make GenBooks and works 
fine, to my knowledge.  osis2mod is used to make Bibles, and is currently 
broken on Windows, regardless of which compiler is used to make the 
executable.  It seems to work fine in Linux.  (It IS a problem with 
osis2mod, not Windows, for those who were ready to suggest Windows was the 
problem.)
 
> So: Is there a way to make modules right now?  If not, can I help get tools 
> working?  Is there an overall status description somewhere that tells me what 
> is underway and what needs to be done?
> 
> I'm having trouble getting started.


--Chris