[sword-devel] eBible.org repository refresh done

Peter von Kaehne refdoc at gmx.net
Sun Aug 16 13:54:06 MST 2015


I might then have created my recent zips the wrong way too... Need to check.

Peter

Sent from my phone. Apologies for brevity and typos.On 16 Aug 2015 9:31 pm, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
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>> On Aug 16, 2015, at 12:48 PM, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:
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> On 08/16/2015 03:18 AM, Kahunapule Michael Johnson wrote:
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>> the module and repository creation instructions say that the zip files should have directory entries.
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> Where do you see this?  http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/DevTools:Modules makes no mention of it.
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> I couldn’t find it either.
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> It is a bug that JSword handles every entry as a file, processing directories before files in them. Since it created a file with the same name as the directory, it can’t create files in it.
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> However, there are tens of thousands downloads of Bible Desktop that have this bug. It is easier to change the zips to work around the bug than for users to figure out that an upgrade (when it becomes available) will fix it.
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> — DM
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