[sword-devel] SWORD 1.7 (proxy, zip cache)

Nic Carter niccarter at mac.com
Sun Jul 15 23:17:38 MST 2012 

Bump?
Was there anything that happened to this? Communications went down not long after this thread was started & so I'm wondering where we are at with 1.7?

:)

On 27/04/2012, at 2:56, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:
>> Any takers to implement these 2 items.
>> 
>> To summarize an old and long discussion on this request, and what we agreed
>> on...
>> 
>> It is important to note exactly what this request entails and they are two
>> very different requests.
>> 
>> Adding proxy support to installmgr might be easy if all our transport class
>> implementations support such.
> 
> Fairly sure the cURL layer supports it. I doubt ftplib does, though.
> Would the requirement be to implement support for both the cURL and
> ftplib cases? If just cURL is sufficient I would be willing to
> research the implementation of it.
> 
>> 
>> Adding the ability to use a module cache of zip files does not add any new
>> functionality for the user of the api or the end user of a frontend. It
>> detrimentally adds possibility for out of sync data between actual module
>> data and the .zip bundle, and is additional work for the remote repository
>> maintainer. Our current implementation, which allows simply any installed
>> module to be accessible as-is via installmgr, all network infrastructure
>> being sound, is more beneficial to end users and module maintainers than
>> this requested additional download option.
> 
> It seems implementing this in two parts would be best. 1) A feature in
> the API where a user of the API can hand a file handle in and the API
> will read the ZIP file and install it. 2) Detection and downloading of
> a ZIP file from remote sources if available. I've heard some
> discussion on the list of people desiring the ability to install from
> a ZIP file a la the ones on the website. So long as this is being
> implemented then why shouldn't it be implemented in such a way as to
> provide both pieces of functionality together?
> 
> --Greg
> 
>> 
>> Having said this, I understand and sympathize with Nic's use case:
>> PocketSword accommodating for poor mobile network infrastructures.
>> 
>> We agreed to provide this functionality as module repository optional cache,
>> similar to mods.d.tar.gz; everything works fine if not present; if the
>> requested module has a .zip bundle cache object, then use it, otherwise
>> download the individual files of the module, as we currently do.
>> 
>> So, any takers?
>> 
>> Troy
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>> 
>> Stephan <info at tetzels.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>>> - Install Manager can download ZIP files from repos via HTTP.
>>>> - proxy support for the install manager, both FTP&  HTTP.
>>> 
>>>> ZIP FILES OVER HTTP
>>>> HTTP DOWNLOAD OF ZIPPED MODULES
>>>> DOWNLOAD IN ZIP FORMAT VIA HTTP OF MODULES
>>> 
>>> +10
>>> 
>>> Stephan
>>> 
>>>> On 22/04/2012, at 5:59 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I have 2 weeks off back home in Phoenix at the beginning of May and
>>>>> hope to push out a new release of SWORD.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can people speak up regarding any outstanding issues so I can start
>>>>> planning.
>>>>> 
>>>>> o    I know we are at an odd place with trunk osis2mod and current filter
>>>>> sets.  Any update or news on that?
>>>>> 
>>>>> o    This is the first thread which supports the new XHTML filters, though
>>>>> they are mostly just a stub right now.  I think I converted
>>> Words of Christ over to use a span and maybe a couple other tags, but they
>>> were meant for the frontends who would like to use them to begin XHTML-izing
>>> them.  Any frontend develops up for morphing these things into something
>>> you'll commit to use and collaborate with the other frontend developers to
>>> be sure they are happy with the results, as well?  Collaboration is
>>> important on this one.
>>>>> 
>>>>> o    We had a bug regarding size limits somewhere in the z drivers.  The
>>>>> original author of these hasn't been around for a while.  I can look into
>>>>> this, but I don't have much of an advantage over others on this one.  This
>>>>> would be a good bug to track down if you'd like to start getting your feet
>>>>> wet deep in internals of the engine code.
>>>>> 
>>>>> o    We still have an outstanding bug report with TOP going to Malachi or
>>>>> something like this in a certain Bible module (I'm old and have forgotten
>>>>> the details on this one.  I think we talked about it in #sword.  I
>>> couldn't find a message thread)
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'll scan the bug tracker, so be sure every issue you know about is
>>>>> entered there: http://crosswire.org/bugs
>>>>> 
>>>>> But also be loud if you don't see your favorite bug fixed or talked
>>>>> about.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for any constructive help you can lend for this release!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Troy
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 04/21/2012 09:29 PM, Barry Drake wrote:
>>>>>> I just discovered that Bibletime and Xiphos can't be installed
>>>>>> together
>>>>>> from the Ubuntu packages for 12.04 because of dependency conflicts. I
>>>>>> used to like having both frontends available. I just wondered if folk
>>>>>> were aware of the current situation and whether this will alter any
>>>>>> time
>>>>>> 
>>> soon?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> God bless, Barry.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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