[sword-devel] Using Multiple Front-ends

[DM Smith]

JSword tries to discover all local repositories to present their modules to the user. It will install only to one location. By default, it will use ~/.sword on Un*x. I forget where on modern windows, but it is different than Xiphos. And on Mac it will ~/Library/Application Support/Sword.

Just looked at And Bible and it uses Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/Android/data/"+PACKAGE_NAME+"/files/, for modules. So it is over-riding JSword’s mechanism for finding modules and installing them. Don’t know how Bishop was able to find them.

In Him,
	DM


> On Mar 4, 2018, at 9:05 PM, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:
> 
> On 03/04/2018 08:46 PM, bschroeder at internode.on.net wrote:
>> I am using Linux, Windows and Android.
> FYI in Sword, this is in swmgr.cpp:
> const char *SWMgr::globalConfPath = "/etc/sword.conf:/usr/local/etc/sword.conf";
> /etc/sword.conf references /usr/share/sword by default. Typically, though, this is unused, module installation tending toward being a personal matter.
> 
> And so then $HOME/.sword is also checked in swmgr.cpp.
> 
> Along the way, $SWORD_PATH is handled.
> 
> OS-specific hackery includes the Windows check:
>     // for various flavors of windoze...
>     // check %ALLUSERSPROFILE%/Application Data/sword/
> 
> No mention of Android in the code, but it's Linux, except that I'm not aware that $HOME means anything in Android...
> 
> Don't neglect that SWMgr's general goal is the amalgamation of all discovered module areas, e.g. you can have modules in both /usr/share/sword and ~/.sword. I don't know the rules for precedence in that case, if e.g. kjv.conf is found in each.
> 
> This is all in Sword. No clues about JSword's habits.
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