[sword-devel] heads up - languages/repo frontend problem

[Greg Hellings]

Kahunapule,

I'm getting login failures at that FTP account, so I can't test. :(

--Greg

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Kahunapule Michael Johnson <
Kahunapule at ebible.org> wrote:

> Yes, it is pretty easy to crash Xiphos, right now. Oops.
> For testing purposes, the repo under construction is:
> Repository name: eBible.org
> Access method: FTP
> Server and directory: eBible.org/pub/sword
> User name: anonymous
> Password: (blank, or fill in any email address. If you don't want to use
> yours, use sword at eBible.org.)
>
> This repository is slightly experimental right now, in that we might
> change module names, and plan to adjust versification used by modules to be
> more optimum before going fully live and public with it, but I recommend
> that developers test to see if they can handle the size of this thing, now
> and over the next few days. The repository is growing rapidly. Within 24
> hours, it should have all Bibles at https://eBible.org/Scriptures/ as
> Sword modules, both in regular and zipped versions, if all goes well.
>
> We are aiming for all 7,102 living languages (a number subject to
> adjustment as language surveys are done), so hard coding a number less than
> that limits the life of your code. Realistically, we might not pass 3,000
> for at least 2 years, but crossing 1,000 languages within a year could
> happen.
>
>
> On 08/04/2015 12:07 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
>
> We are currently in the midst of the work of conversion of a very large
> collection of Bible texts and creation of a new repo.
>
> The repo will have in excess of 600 Bibles.
>
> Interestingly this triggers a bug in Xiphos, which had made the at one
> time probably reasonable assumption that no repo will have more than
> 200 languages. This guestimate is used to allocate memory space for an
> array containing the language info of a repo to create a tree menu in
> the module manager. I fixed the bug for myself by adjusting the
> assumption upwards. 1000 is probably a reasonable number nowadays. Not
> sure if this fix will cause other problems, so I have not committed it
> but passed on to Karl who will come to his own conclusions.
>
> But if other frontends do the same and use a similar lowish number,
> these frontends will be in trouble when the repo goes officially on
> line.
>
> Yours
>
> Peter
>
>
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