[sword-devel] Making a Zip archive of a module?

[Greg Hellings]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:22 PM David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:

> I was rather hoping that a tool that takes just the ModuleName as its
> parameter might be available.
>
> If we can have
> mkfastmod ModuleName
>

Creating indexes is a SWORD-specific feature


> and
> mod2zmod ModuleName
>

Compressing a module is a SWORD-specific feature


> then why not one like
> zipmod ModuleName
> that finds the right files by looking up the path in .conf file?
>

Creating an archive from known file paths is a standard feature of the
operating system you're working with or its default utilities. There's
nothing really here for the library to do.

That said, here's a Python script that will do exactly what you asked for.
https://github.com/greg-hellings/sword-helpers
It requires that you have the Sword Python bindings in place.

--Greg

>
> David
>
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>
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 18:13, Dudeck, John <John.Dudeck at sim.org> wrote:
>
> David, here's a snippet from my bat files that I use for creating modules.
> The zip files import into AndBible without problem.
>
> ========================================
> rem usage: OSIS2sword-bibles sourcepath/filename
> set modname=%~n1
>
> [snip]
>
> rem create zip file
> rem delete any previous zip
> del "%modname%.zip"
> rem (uses zip.exe from
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/zip-3.0-setup.exe)
> "c:Program Files (x86)GnuWin32 inzip.exe" -r -u "%modname%.zip" mods.d*
> modules*
> ========================================
>
>
>
> > I normally use the Xiphos Module Manager (Maintenance | Archive) to
> create a compressed Zip
> > archive of a selected module.
> >
> > Is there an equivalent Sword Utility to perform the same task in a
> command shell ?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > David
> >
> > Sent from ProtonMail Mobile
>
> John Dudeck
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> john.dudeck at sim.org                            john at editionscle.com
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