Re: [sword-devel] Fedora packaging recommendation

2018-01-26 Thread Greg Hellings
The conf file tells the engine where it should look for its library. These aren't the module conf files that need documentation but the master sword.conf file. There's only a very limited amount of data that can go into it, but it's not at all unreasonable to have a manpage for this file. It has no

Re: [sword-devel] Fedora packaging recommendation

2018-01-26 Thread Michael H
Since the .conf files have no user configuration switches... fedora is wrong. Files of this type, .conf files, in unix regularly have switches. Fedora is suggesting the Man pages describe what the end user can do by changing the configuration files. The only thing they can do is cause the program

[sword-devel] Fedora packaging recommendation

2018-01-26 Thread Greg Hellings
Fedora's automatic packaging check suggests that we ought to have a man page for /etc/sword.conf. Knowing nothing about man pages, is there anyone out there who feels that this is important enough to tackle? --Greg ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-dev

Re: [sword-devel] Q about compressed modules

2018-01-26 Thread Michael H
Hi John, If you're planning to submit to crosswire for hosting, All of these questions are handled by the module maintainer at crosswire (currently Peter.) You don't really need to worry about them, other than to confirm your source does compile. You need to confirm it's clean source (the OSIS, Th

[sword-devel] Q about compressed modules

2018-01-26 Thread John Dudeck
In the Wiki, on the http://wiki.crosswire.org/DevTools:Modules page it gives directions for using mod2zmod for compressing modules. However osis2mod.exe has command-line switches for creating compressed modules. My question is: do these produce equivalent results? Which is preferred? For

[sword-devel] Q about -s 4 option to osis2mod

2018-01-26 Thread John Dudeck
Greetings. I am a little unclear about how to know when to use the 4-byte -s 4 entry option for osis2mod for commentaries and bibles. I have some LARGE commentaries, and I don't know how I can find out if there are any entries that are over 64K. Is there a message generated somewhere? Or a