[sword-devel] eBible.org repository refresh done

jonathon jonathon.blake at gmail.com
Sun Aug 16 20:03:00 MST 2015


D M Smith wrote:

> The [name] of the module should be the appropriate English abbreviation for the module. 

Please don't use abbreviations, whether in English, or any other
language, as "[name] of the module"

Write it out in full. Otherwise, somebody is going to download the wrong
Bible, and blame the repository maintainer (if you are lucky) for false
and deceptive advertising, never realizing that they were simply the
victim of a preventable abbreviation collision.

Currently, there are over 2,500 translations/versions of the Bible in a
digital file format, in English alone.

As one simple example of an issue in English, there are three different
translations in English, that have the abridged name of "The Smith
Translation". That two of them are referred to as "JS translation" or "J
Smith translation" simply compounds the confusion.

The three different Bibles that advertise themselves as being "The
Rainbow KJV Bible" further highlight the name collision issue.

jonathon



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