[sword-devel] eBible.org repository refresh done

[DM Smith]

Haven’t had time until today to look closely at the repository. I’ve spent most of the day working with it in Bible Desktop.

Bible Desktop 1.6, the latest release, does not handle zips that have directory entries. The next release (any day now, for a real long time) does not have this problem. This means that none of the modules are available to users of Bible Desktop.

I imagine that AndBible doesn’t have this problem.

The first few modules I tried didn’t have zips at all. E.g. any of the dictionaries. This provides an unpleasant user experience in BibleDesktop as it does a HEAD on the zip to get its size.

As a matter of style, Description should be the “title” of the work, not an actual description. That is, it should be short. Here is one of the long ones:
The World Messianic Bible British Edition is a Public Domain translation of the Holy Bible into modern English as spoken among Messianic Jews outside of the United States of America. This translation is also known as the World English Bible: British Messianic Edition.
This probably should be
World Messianic Bible British Edition

The content is more appropriate in the About field.

The [name] of the module should be the appropriate english abbreviation for the module. It has to be ASCII letters and digits. We’ve recently added Abbreviation as a means of providing internationalization of the name. I don’t know how many applications show the Abbreviation instead of the module name.

The same module above has
[engwmbb2015]
Abbreviation=WMBB

WBBM should be what is in the []. The value of what you provide is that their is very unlikely to be collisions with other repositories.

Many applications in laying out their UI assume that the name is very short.

I also noticed, but didn’t take note of the place, that ShortCopyright=…. was at the end of the About field in several modules.

Hope this helps.

In His Service,
	DM

> On Aug 14, 2015, at 7:03 PM, Kahunapule Michael Johnson <kahunapule at eBible.org> wrote:
> 
> Please forgive the missed modules. I tried to save time by selecting only the modules with upper case letters for rebuilding, and missed some. In my excitement, I kept working on this even while traveling. It is kind of awkward remote controlling my computer at home with a smaller-screened laptop, so the text is tiny and the scrolling is jerky. That still worked better than trying to do all of this from my laptop directly, because of bandwidth constraints traveling. Still, it would have been faster to rebuild everything, apparently. That is what happens when I'm rushed and tired.
> 
> On the other hand, during the day I was in a set of meetings where I met the director of the Philippine Bible Society, so I have high hopes of getting some more Bible translations for us. Stay tuned on that.
> 
> Yesterday, I added the Binandere Mark, Luke, and Acts to the set. That is probably more exciting to a small group of people from the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea than for you.
> 
> I'm back at home, now. I think I have manually rebuilt the modules with capitalization errors, but I just kicked off a full rebuild, just in case.
> 
> On 08/14/2015 11:12 AM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
>> On 08/14/2015 12:10 PM, Kahunapule Michael Johnson wrote:
>>> The eBible.org repository refresh is done, again, with no case squashing anywhere, and consistent capitalization. I hope. (Tell me if I missed something, of course.)
>> For the 3rd time, there are case errors causing installation failure and, of course, failure of the module to be usable in any case-sensitive filesystem such as Linux/UNIX systems, if the modules are manually installed.  Examples:
>> 
>> $ grep DataPath tzo*
>> tzoNT1995.conf:DataPath=./modules/texts/ztext/tzoNT1995/
>> tzoSA1983.conf:DataPath=./modules/texts/ztext/tzosa1983/
>> tzoZNT2009.conf:DataPath=./modules/texts/ztext/tzoznt2009/
>> 
>> ftp> cd pub/sword/modules/texts/ztext
>> 250 CWD command successful
>> ftp> dir tzo*
>> 227 Entering Passive Mode (74,208,71,128,140,61).
>> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
>> drwxrwxr-x   2 ebible   psacln       4096 Aug 14 02:00 tzoNT1995
>> drwxrwxr-x   2 ebible   psacln       4096 Aug 11 17:25 tzoSA1983
>> drwxrwxr-x   2 ebible   psacln       4096 Aug 11 17:26 tzoZNT2009
>> 
>> My testing of this has been simply to select all modules for installation.  You could do this yourself and find the same result.  I don't understand why this is such a challenge.
> 
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