[sword-devel] SWORD 1.5.11 ISO

[DM Smith]

I've learned some thing in helping to prepare the ISO, regarding setup  
on Linux.

For Linux there is a setup.sh program that kicks off a Loki installer,  
driven by the files in the folder setup.data. It appears that the  
installer tests to see if glib-2 is installed and if it is not, then  
it tries to install it and use it.

In there, there is a file, setup.xml which tells the story of what the  
installer tries to do: It will present a menu to give a choice to  
install Cheatah, BibleTime and GnomeSword. It uses various  
*base.tar.gz files in the root of the CD as part of the installation  
and it uses statically linked binaries in bin/x86.

The point of this is to allow any user on Linux the easiest  
opportunity to run BibleTime and GnomeSword (I think Cheatah is too  
old to even be of any value, if it runs at all, and probably should be  
removed) without installing, if available, from a distribution or  
compiling it themselves.

So to update the CD to include, say GnomeSword, the following should  
be done.
Put a zip or tar.gz of the source in SOURCES, e.g. gnomesword2-2.3.4- 
src.tar.gz
Put a statically linked executable in bin/x86. This should be named  
without a version number, e.g. gnomesword, not gnomesword2 or  
gnomesword2-2.3.4. (If it must be named anything else, then setup.data/ 
setup.xml must be changed)
Update the appropriate *base.tar.gz file, but do not rename it. e.g.  
gnomeswordbase.tar.gz. These files are unpacked into /usr. (If you  
need them to be rooted otherwise, setup.data/setup.xml must be changed)

The Loki installer also allows one to run the linux installmgr. This  
requires the null.tar.gz file that is in the root of the CD. Running  
the installmgr, if I understand correctly, will initialize the CD as a  
local install source.

I would like to know if any of this works. The real test would be to  
setup.sh to run installmgr and gnomesword on a kde system without  
gnome installed and to run installmgr and bibletime on a gnome system  
without kde. And then again with the appropriate infrastructure. It  
would also be interesting to run cheatah.

If people would give it all a test run on their distribution and  
report back their experiences, that would be great.

In Him,
	DM



On May 16, 2008, at 1:42 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:

> I've burned a new test ISO for people to start slamming if there are  
> any
> willing testers out there.  It's in the usual place:
>
> ftp://crosswire.org/pub/sword/iso or
> http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/iso
>
> grab the iso with today's date in the name.
>
> Thanks to everyone who has time to test,
>
> 	-Troy.
>
> PS.  I know the Windows standalone installers are not updated (DM, do
> you remember how to build these?).  However, the CD install will  
> install
> the newest binaries Chris posted yesterday.
>
> PPS.  I know the final 1.5.11 engine source is also not updated  
> since it
> hasn't been released yet.
>
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