[sword-devel] Av11n mark 2

[Peter von Kaehne]

On Wed, 2015-07-15 at 09:05 -0400, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
> On 07/15/2015 08:29 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> > Wrt the not display of book Doofus 1.1 or even the existing Malachi
> > 3.22 - if I remember correctly the GB av11n implementation was 
> > added to
> > Xiphos at the same time when Xiphos added code to _not_crash_ on 
> > av11n
> > modules.
> Xiphos never had code specifically regarding GB Bibles at all; the 
> whole idea was that it should be invisible.  When the underlying API 
> changed for av11n, work was done to update Xiphos' use of it 
> appropriately, which still (at that time) restricted it to KJV v11n 
> because I wasn't prepared to do the required additional VerseKey 
> work, which was a bit far-reaching. That is, nothing was done at that 
> time to add v11n sensitivity to key creation, hence all keys 
> defaulted to KJV. But it never knew anything specific about GB v11n. 
> In principle, the apps shouldn't be able to tell.
> > As far as CrossWire is concerned I am currently the person in 
> > charge of
> > allowing any modules on. It would be easy to implement restrictions 
> > as
> > to when and how we were willing to accommodate GBav11n. IBT is
> > similarly tightly controlled. Xiphos - Karl can comment upon that.
> /me is still confused.
> 
> There's nothing in Xiphos that restricts (or cares about, in fact) 
> where v11n details come from.  Xiphos just expects to be able to ask 
> the API "how many books are available?" and "what are their names?"  
> Whether that's from original KJV layout, or updated av11n, or GB 
> Bible internal generality, Xiphos has never cared, as long as the API 
> gives results.

I am now going to install the other two GB bibles we have to see if
there is simply a problem with the module (GerLut1545lhgb). 

Peter