[sword-devel] Xiphos not seeing eBible.org repository?

[Michael Johnson]

I'm looking for a pattern in what works and what doesn't. Here is the test: install a Bible unique to eBible.org.

Front end
	version
	Sword version
	OS
	Result
Xiphos
	4.1.0
	1.8.1
	Windows 10
	PASS
Xiphos
	4.0.7
	1.7.3
	Ubuntu 18.04
	FAIL
Bibletime
	2.11.1
	1.8.1
	Windows 10
	PASS
Bibletime
	2.11.1
	1.7.3
	Ubuntu 18.04
	FAIL
Xiphos
	4.0.4
	1.7.3
	Ubuntu 16.04
	PASS
Bibletime
	2.10.1
	1.7.3
	Ubuntu 16.04
	FAIL
Bibletime
	2.11.1
	? "About" blank
	Mac OS 10.13.5
	PASS


It looks to me like the conditions for failure are running Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver OR running Bibletime 2.10.1. Presumably the latter problem can be safely ignored, since it appears to have been fixed in the current version. However, it seems to me to be worth investigating what it is about Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver that is causing a module manager failure in both Bibletime and Xiphos. Is it the older version of the Sword engine? If so, why does that version work on the previous LTS version of Ubuntu?

This seems to be a worthy puzzle to solve. Ubuntu LTS releases are the ones supported by UBS and SIL for Bible translation use, and the Bible translations in the eBible.org repository are frequently used as reference works by Bible translators. Not only that, but for many end users, the only Bible in their own language is in the eBible.org repository.

Any clues?

On 06/13/2018 12:16 AM, Robert Hunt wrote:
> Seems I can't get either http nor ftp eBible repository on Xiphos 4.07 on Ubuntu Bionic.
>
> Robert.
>
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> On 13/06/18 15:36, Michael Johnson wrote:
>> Yes, I refreshed the standard list of sources and manually refreshed eBible.org. I got a blank list.
>>
>> On 06/12/2018 05:14 PM, Greg Hellings wrote:
>>> Did you go through the normal path of refreshing the standard list of sources?
>>>
>>> --Greg
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:03 PM Kahunapule Michael Johnson <Kahunapule at ebible.org <mailto:Kahunapule at ebible.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      I just set up a new Linux (Ubuntu Bionic Beaver) system for someone, including an install of Xiphos. When trying to preload a few Bible translations, I noticed that Xiphos couldn't see the eBible.org repository. However, I can see and use it just fine from some other front ends. Is anyone else having this problem? Is there anything I can do about it, or is this something that needs to be fixed in Xiphos?
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