[sword-devel] PocketSword status

Fri Mar 13 13:40:11 MST 2020

I think that dividing the eBible repository into sub repos is probably not the best solution to the problem of finding the particular translation(s) you want among nearly a thousand others. That actually becomes a front end problem, where better ways of filtering, sorting, and presenting lists by language, language autonym, continent, country, etc. could be helpful. Sub repos add problems of their own by making it harder to find certain translations.

On 3/13/20 10:30 AM, Michael H wrote:
> Is it possible that the modules and .conf can sunset ... pointing across repositories to the new replacement?  I know there is some facility to name a successor module in the conf/updating process, but can it name one on another site?
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> If that is possible, Some of the out of date editions of the WEB should be removed from Crosswire (WMB, etc.) It might help the remaining editions get updated with more frequency. 
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> On the other side of that, ebible has added several works from Crosswire onto it's Web directory and I see at least some of these on the ebible sword repo.  However, As far as I can tell, these modules are not actually changing visible content every time they update. It's more that defects introduced by the transfer to ebible have been eliminated, so that they now represent a truer copy of the original at Crosswire. These shouldn't be removed from either, but maybe the ebible repo could be clearer that
> it's presenting content from Crosswire, and not changing it. 
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> Is it possible the ebible repository could be divided into sub repos, like the crosswire site has ?  It would be nice to select ebible-english, or ebible-americas and have a list of only 20 or 100 languages to scroll through, vs. selecting ebible creates 1000 entries to search in Bibletime, which seems to have difficulty with that number... so the screen updates get 10 second to a couple minutes behind the keystrokes and mouse clicks when I've selected ebible for downloading? 
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> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:11 AM Cyrille <lafricain79 at gmail.com <mailto:lafricain79 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Dear all,
>     Actually my worry was about a question between the module team. We have
>     duplicated modules, in Crosswire and in ebible.org <http://ebible.org>. Often the ebible.org <http://ebible.org>
>     are updated and not in Crosswire. And we are very slow to update the new
>     module in Crosswire. Then I proposed to remove in the Crosswire repo,
>     all the old modules with issue reported on the bug tracker. But the
>     question was: What to do if the users don't know how to change the repo,
>     as it happened in the other post on this list, some of us didn't know
>     how to change for IBT in Xiphos.
>     I Bibletime, Andbible and Bishop, the repositories are updated all
>     together, but not in Xiphos. I opened an issue about this on the xiphos git.
>     For this reason I proposed this for Swordpocket, even if it seems to be
>     more or less easier than for Xiphos.
>
>     Br Cyrille
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>     Le 13/03/2020 à 04:14, Nic Carter a écrit :
>     > On the downloads screen, tap on the folder icon in the top right corner, then refresh the source list.
>     > That will show all servers in the Master Server List.
>     >
>     > Sent from my phone, hence this email may be short...
>     >
>     >> On 13/03/2020, at 09:24, Cyrille <lafricain79 at gmail.com <mailto:lafricain79 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Hi Michael,
>     >> Maybe add the updating of all the repositories at once, as with Andbible
>     >> and Bishop. This will help users who don't know they are other
>     >> repository as ebible.org...
>     >> My 2 cents :)
>     >>
>     >> Br Cyrille
>     >>
>     >>> Le 12/03/2020 à 20:30, Michael Johnson a écrit :
>     >>> Hello, my brothers and sisters in Christ.
>     >>>
>     >>> I just thought I should post a status on PocketSword work. I have started on updating it, but haven't yet gotten to a stable point for testing using Test Flight. Right now, it is, unfortunately, on hold, as I have another task in the foreground. I finished the main editing of the World English Bible, with the exception of still correcting the occasional rare typo. (I found one this morning in Ezekiel.) My foreground task at the moment is integrating SILE into Haiola for better PDF generation,
>     especially
>     >>> with mixed complex scripts. After that is done, I hope to focus on PocketSword. In its new incarnation, it will generate its own indexes, and won't need special server support for that. I'll also fix the key problem for when a module goes from locked to unlocked, which of course, will happen as copyrights expire and/or special permission is granted.
>     >>>
>     >>> Thank you for your patience.
>     >>>
>     >>
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