[sword-devel] Xiphos 4.2.1

[David Haslam]

Thanks Karl.

Well done everyone involved.

Is there any guidance for Windows users who had previously installed the x86 edition of version 4.1.0 but would like to install the x64 edition as the update to version 4.2.1 ?

Will running the install work smoothly in this situation or should I first manually uninstall the x86 edition?

Best regards,

David H

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On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 15:24, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:

> https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/releases/tag/4.2.1
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> After a long dry spell, Xiphos is back with a new release. This is a release of many bug fixes and much re-structuring, especially for how the build system operates, an important factor for those in development. The older waf build system is gone, having been re-engineered from the ground up with cmake.
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> User-visible changes regard crash-avoidance bugfixes and cosmetic matters: Corrected use of visuals in parallel window, corrected verse displays, status bar repair, corrected alternating fg/bg in parallel, improved/corrected spacing of Strong's and morphology with respect to mainline text, additions to the languages recognized in module displays, increased limits on book name length for exotic UTF-8 languages (encodings too long), and some new and updated interface translations.
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> I want most to thank the folks who have really stepped up in the last few months and especially the last couple weeks, making sure that the automatic build and release procedures are so robust.  Greg Hellings and Dom Corbex are the most obvious folks -- Dom gave us the re-engineered cmake-driven build system and Greg has done the bulk of the github-driven auto-build-and-release machinery.  There are many other contributors, and about 4 dozen issues have been closed.
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> There are Windows installers and source tarballs for download.  Linux distributions should begin to gain updates soon.  There are Ubuntu PPA efforts underway due to Ubuntu no longer supporting our editor package (and the editor is under discussion for replacement, for many reasons).  See RELEASE-NOTES in /usr/share/doc/xiphos (for Windows, similarly under usual paths) for a list of issues addressed.
>
> --karl
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