[sword-devel] Remote Module Repository Wiki

[Matthew Talbert]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Jonathan Morgan <jonmmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:
>>
>> Jonathan Morgan <jonmmorgan at gmail.com> writes:
>> > 2. Offering a list of downloads at CrossWire tends to suggest that
>> > they are the *only* books available.  While I can download zip files
>> > from Xiphos FTP directly (for example), it's not easy to find out
>> > about
>> ...
>> > BPBible relies on zip installation at present.  I think this is a
>> > reasonable decision, though we would like to grow Install Manager
>> > support at some point (in part to get easier access to the Xiphos
>> > repository).
>>
>> You can access http://ftp.xiphos.org/sword/mods.d.tar.gz, crack it open,
>> and see what's available.  Just two assumptions:
>> - the zip subdir is at the same level as mods.d
>> - xyz.conf has a corresponding xyz.zip.
>
> Agreed.  I can and have.  I don't expect my average user to, though.

Perhaps this isn't any better, but you can see the entire list here:
http://ftp.xiphos.org/sword/zip/ Of course, it doesn't use very
descriptive names, but it slightly more user friendly than opening the
tar.gz.

Matthew