[sword-devel] Possibility to install arbitrary module versions with InstallMgr

[Greg Hellings]

The biggest problem with that would seem to be that the server only keeps
the current version. It doesn't keep older versions in place (or, at least
it hasn't in the past)

--Greg

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022, 14:37 Tobias Klein <contact at tklein.info> wrote:

> Hi Troy,
>
> As I am thinking about module upgrade support for Ezra Bible App
> (currently not implemented) I am also (once more) asking myself why
> there isn't an API for installing arbitrary module versions with
> InstallMgr.
>
> The two additional use cases that I would like to have in the SWORD
> engine are:
>
> - Add a function to list the module versions for a given module and a
> given repository
> - Add a version parameter to the installModule function
>
> Would it be much effort to implement this in SWORD?
>
> Are there any existing design constraints that make it hard to add this?
>
> Best regards,
> Tobias
>
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