Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr details.

2009-05-14 Thread Greg Hellings
Troy, That does answer a lot of questions. Just a few notes on why I think that the remote source versions don't have to be different at all: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > "Until you understand the details, design always sounds simple." >  --I'm sure, some famous

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr details.

2009-05-14 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
"Until you understand the details, design always sounds simple." --I'm sure, some famous architect near retirement. There is a basic and practical difference between a local and a remote installation, however abstract you want to get. Remote repositories have concepts like 'refresh from rem

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread Greg Hellings
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Matthew Talbert wrote: >> Does it require a difference (for the C++ front ends) to add support >> for FTP InstallMgr methods than it does for them to add a file:// >> version?  It seems that, if so, this is a problem with the design of >> InstallMgr.  I would imag

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread Matthew Talbert
> Does it require a difference (for the C++ front ends) to add support > for FTP InstallMgr methods than it does for them to add a file:// > version?  It seems that, if so, this is a problem with the design of > InstallMgr.  I would imagine that the interface between SWORD and the > application wou

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread Greg Hellings
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Thank Matthew.  Yes Daniel, we have had an established standard for > installing modules for quite some time which uses FTP for remote module > installation.  I would like all of our client applications to support all of > our officially

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread DM Smith
Just a bit of history regarding JSword. We have an FTP mechanism. We moved it to limbo, but can put it back at any time, with little effort. It worked just fine on Windows XP until a particular patch came out. After that, FTP was blocked by Windows XP. But we already had complaints that FTP

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread Daniel Owens
Thanks for your assurances, Matthew and Troy. Just to make sure I've understood, FTP was chosen initially because you can download multiple files more easily, which is why JSword requires zipped modules when downloading over HTTP. Adding the ability to download from a working SWORD library over

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Thank Matthew. Yes Daniel, we have had an established standard for installing modules for quite some time which uses FTP for remote module installation. I would like all of our client applications to support all of our officially supported install methods. The reason for this is so we can as

[sword-devel] Script to generate SWORD module zipfiles (was: Re: InstallMgr)

2009-05-14 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Chris said: The ZIPs are only created by the download servlet. If this is correct, then none of: for module in $(cat /usr/share/sword/mods.d./*.conf | grep -e '^\[.*\]$' | sed -e 's/\[(.*)\]/\1/'); do installmgr -ri CrossWire $module; done for module in $(cat /path/to/zips); do

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread Matthew Talbert
> I think I caught your drift with the caps in your previous message, but it's > a bit discouraging and doesn't yet answer the problem I raised awhile back. > > To recap, because of security concerns with having anonymous FTP access, one > group I work with effectively denied us the ability to set

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread Matthew Talbert
> wget will pull over http or ftp.  It's ca-raze-ey like that! :O > > Where is the list of all the files that need to be pulled? > > --Greg Presumably all the raw zips linked from http://crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModDisp.jsp?modType=Bibles and the related pages. Matthew ___

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread Greg Hellings
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Matthew Talbert wrote: >> >> The (to my mind) greater issue is simply that it this system requires >> >> someone else to have already downloaded the most recent version of a >> >> module. >> >> The ZIPs are only created by the download servlet. Assuming our hope t

Re: [sword-devel] 1.6.0

2009-05-14 Thread Matthew Talbert
> Xiphos: Again, Dmitry's current packages should already work fine with SWORD > 1.6.0. This is correct. Xiphos 3.0.1 is compatible with 1.6.0. We are planning another release Sunday, including a Windows release packaged with 1.6.0. It's important to realize that "compatible" merely means "compile

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread Matthew Talbert
> >> The (to my mind) greater issue is simply that it this system requires > >> someone else to have already downloaded the most recent version of a > >> module. > >> The ZIPs are only created by the download servlet. Assuming our hope that > >> people migrate to InstallMgrs comes true, fewer and

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread Greg Hellings
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: > Chris Little wrote: > >> The (to my mind) greater issue is simply that it this system requires >> someone else to have already downloaded the most recent version of a module. >> The ZIPs are only created by the download servlet. Assuming o

Re: [sword-devel] 1.6.0

2009-05-14 Thread Greg Hellings
Excellent to hear! I'll get versions of BibleTime built with the latest SWORD released library up for Windows and Mac in the upcoming very few days. --Greg On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > I am very pleased to announce the release of 1.6.0.  Finally, our very first > r

Re: [sword-devel] 1.6.0

2009-05-14 Thread Jonathan Marsden
David Haslam wrote: Next task - as a follow up. Post a news item in http://crosswire.org/index.jsp?section=News and outline when the binaries for each "1.6 compatible front-end" are expected to become available for download. Here is my Debian/Ubuntu-biased perspective, in alphabetical order:

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Chris Little wrote: The (to my mind) greater issue is simply that it this system requires someone else to have already downloaded the most recent version of a module. The ZIPs are only created by the download servlet. Assuming our hope that people migrate to InstallMgrs comes true, fewer and f

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread Daniel Owens
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: Dear DM and other, Maybe someone can help a bit. The problem we ran into was that there was no reliable way to download a folder via http and there was no way to reliably know the content of the folder. Yes, agreed, this is why implementing this on the C++ side is n

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Dear DM and other, Maybe someone can help a bit. The problem we ran into was that there was no reliable way to download a folder via http and there was no way to reliably know the content of the folder. Yes, agreed, this is why implementing this on the C++ side is not yet complete. It is no

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread Gregory Hellings
On May 14, 2009, at 15:39, DM Smith wrote: Chris Little wrote: Troy A. Griffitts wrote: I would like to add new officially supported methods, like adding: o Installation of modules from another existing SWORD library installation via HTTP ( e.g., http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread DM Smith
Chris Little wrote: Troy A. Griffitts wrote: I would like to add new officially supported methods, like adding: o Installation of modules from another existing SWORD library installation via HTTP ( e.g., http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/raw ) A skeleton class for this method was

Re: [sword-devel] new WLC module posted to beta

2009-05-14 Thread Chris Little
And another thing... This module is built with the most recent osis2mod (1.6.0), so look upon it as a test of that as well. --Chris Chris Little wrote: Once you've got 1.6.0 in your hands and working, take a look at the new WLC module, based on WLC 4.10. The big new feature *should* be the

Re: [sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread Chris Little
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: I would like to add new officially supported methods, like adding: o Installation of modules from another existing SWORD library installation via HTTP ( e.g., http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/raw ) A skeleton class for this method was already added in 1.6

[sword-devel] InstallMgr

2009-05-14 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
To outline the supported logic for SWORD module installation as it currently stands: The SWORD Project library, as of 1.6.0 currently has builtin features to support: o Management of an existing SWORD library installation (provided the user has proper permissions to perform the actions, etc

Re: [sword-devel] feature request: module manager enhancement

2009-05-14 Thread DM Smith
On May 13, 2009, at 11:50 PM, Jonathan Morgan wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Daniel Owens wrote: You've got my vote. It seems to be an understandable confusion that zipped modules are available but most front-ends don't support their use. BPBible implemented the installation of

[sword-devel] Calvin's Commentaries

2009-05-14 Thread Luke Plant
Hi all, I have just discovered that the ThML Calvin commentary files from CCEL, though labelled as public domain (both on their site, and in the actual ThML), are actually copyrighted (that is, the ThML tags rather than the text itself). The CalvinCommentaries OSIS module hosted on Crosswire

Re: [sword-devel] [Fwd: Re: [sword-support] Hebrew Text With Morphological Tags]

2009-05-14 Thread David Troidl
Tischendorf actually has noticeable differences from NA27. Westcott-Hort might be better, if it had the same morphological analysis. Daniel Owens wrote: I must have missed the announcement about MorphGNT. It's a real shame. I hope the openscriptures folk figure out a solution. It sounds like

Re: [sword-devel] 1.6.0

2009-05-14 Thread David Haslam
Terrific news! Next task - as a follow up. Post a news item in http://crosswire.org/index.jsp?section=News and outline when the binaries for each "1.6 compatible front-end" are expected to become available for download. -- David Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > > I am very pleased to announce the

Re: [sword-devel] feature request: module manager enhancement

2009-05-14 Thread David Haslam
You have my vote too! btw. The MK program on the IBT website even supports module adding by drag'n'drop of the ZIP file anywhere in the application Window. As a simplicity feature for novice users this is a highly attractive behaviour for any SWORD front end. -- David Daniel Owens wrote: >

[sword-devel] new WLC module posted to beta

2009-05-14 Thread Chris Little
Once you've got 1.6.0 in your hands and working, take a look at the new WLC module, based on WLC 4.10. The big new feature *should* be the use of native versification: Malachi will have 3 chapters, Nehemiah is the last book of the Bible, the Chronicles come between Malachi & Psalms, and the NT

Re: [sword-devel] 1.6.0

2009-05-14 Thread Martin Gruner
Congratulations and thank you from the BibleTime team! mg am Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2009 um 10:28 schrieben Sie: > I am very pleased to announce the release of 1.6.0. Finally, our very > first release supporting the long requested feature: alternate > versification! > As usually, it is the resu

[sword-devel] 1.6.0

2009-05-14 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
I am very pleased to announce the release of 1.6.0. Finally, our very first release supporting the long requested feature: alternate versification! As usually, it is the result of so many contributing their part. We've had such a blessing of new people pitch in toward this release. And I am

[sword-devel] Win32 Sword 1.6.0 utilities

2009-05-14 Thread Chris Little
The Win32 utilities bundle for 1.6.0 is posted at http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/win32/sword-utilities-1.6.0.zip Since we're now compiling utilities in MSVC, they are much smaller and hopefully a bit faster. Due to their much reduced size, I've eliminated the individual utility

Re: [sword-devel] feature request: module manager enhancement

2009-05-14 Thread Manfred Bergmann
Am 14.05.2009 um 04:50 schrieb Jonathan Morgan: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Daniel Owens wrote: You've got my vote. It seems to be an understandable confusion that zipped modules are available but most front-ends don't support their use. BPBible implemented the installation of modu