[sword-devel] SVN with BibleTime on Mac

[Ben Morgan]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>wrote:

> Built (without tests) and installed on Mac OS X.  Updated to SVN Head
> with BibleTime and built.  It opens Bibles fine and Genbooks also.  I
> tried to install some passages from the CrossWire site with the
> bookshelf manager, but it fails to make the connection and just stares
> at me (I believe this is a known bug on the BibleTime/Mac side and not
> an issue of the RC directly with permissions in the module directory
> -- although both BibleTime and installmgr should warn the users if
> they are trying to write into a directory they don't have permission
> for).
>
> On some specific issues: Jude 18 maps to Revelation 17:1 as per the
> past thread - don't know if that issue was resolved or not.
>
This now requires a flag to be turned on, due to concerns with code
breakage.


> I also have the KJVgb installed.  It doesn't really work, but it works
> better than in the past.  BibleTime defaults to opening a Bible to
> Genesis 1:1, with the whole chapter of Genesis 1 displayed.  Instead,
> I see two copies of the last verse of Revelation.  Using the up/down
> arrow selectors in BibleTime, I can get it to jump around to various
> passages in the early part of Genesis - but the pattern isn't quite
> understandable to me.  Sometimes I get whole chapters, sometimes
> verses, they're rarely what is displayed in the selection dialog, and
> when they are, I'm not sure how they ended up there.  But that's an
> improvement over previous releases which would just segfault when I
> tried to open KJVgb!

I wouldn't bother with KJVgb at the moment. At least the initial av11n will
be using static  (i.e. compiled in) canons. And I don't see that the genbook
support gives you all that much more flexibility, anyway (without extra work
on the library to expose the extra flexibility...)

God Bless,
Ben
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