On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 4:43 PM Tom Sullivan wrote:
> Y'all:
>
> I finally successfully brought up a Fedora VM.
>
> General warning: Do NOT install LXDE - it will trash your ability to
> highlight text or copy/paste. XFCE is fine.
>
> Anyway, I tried multiple times to compile and run:
> Sword - w
Y'all:
I finally successfully brought up a Fedora VM.
General warning: Do NOT install LXDE - it will trash your ability to
highlight text or copy/paste. XFCE is fine.
Anyway, I tried multiple times to compile and run:
Sword - worked fine as a test - there is a current rpm.
Bibletime - could n
On 5/14/20 9:09 AM, Tom Sullivan wrote:
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>
> Thanks for suggestions about Fedora.
If you have reservations about RHEL, you can look into Arch, or Manjaro,
they are Rolling Release, and you can always have whatever packages you
like. I have the latest available of both Xiphos and BibleTime!
Y'all:
Some clarifications:
By no means am I quitting Sword. I intended the opposite, just that I am
willing to put up with bugs and older versions than be a time wasting pest.
Debian Stable is best for me. Starting a new release, I can
fix/workaround issues and be done; things are not chang
On Wed, 13 May 2020 17:27:43 -0400
Tom Sullivan wrote:
> The repositories do not contain the latest versions. For example, the
> Debian Buster repository presents Xiphos 4.1, not the latest 4.2.
I was a long time Debian user, I switched to Fedora for that reason.
On Fedora, (many thanks to Gre
On 5/13/20 4:57 PM, Tom Sullivan wrote:
> ...snip...
>
> Suggestion 1: Clean up documentation. Prime exhibit: May Crosswire
> page refers to Sword 1.8.0 with link for months with no mention of 1.8.1.
>
This is essential, and what makes it hard for new people to pick up and
work on some projects (no
On Ubuntu, I've gone to PPA version for LibreOffice... which is a newer
version than was released under Ubuntu 18 LTS. However, it's not as easy to
go to PPA for sword apps because there are more interactions with
dependencies between the sword engine, gnome, etc.
Back in 2002 to 04 time frame: I
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 4:28 PM Tom Sullivan wrote:
> Greg:
>
> The repositories do not contain the latest versions. For example, the
> Debian Buster repository presents Xiphos 4.1, not the latest 4.2.
>
1) This is the benefit and curse of Debian. It refuses to let new versions
of packages in th
Greg:
The repositories do not contain the latest versions. For example, the
Debian Buster repository presents Xiphos 4.1, not the latest 4.2.
That is how I ended up reporting bugs that had been fixed. It is a wide
problem; I mention Xiphos, not as a bad example, but because I happened
to rem
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 3:57 PM Tom Sullivan wrote:
> Y'all:
>
> First, I recognize that as a writer and long retired developer and
> engineer (and thus obsolete) that in terms of technical issues, I am way
> out of my league with all you C++ programmers and experts.
>
> Second, I want to thank a
Y'all:
First, I recognize that as a writer and long retired developer and
engineer (and thus obsolete) that in terms of technical issues, I am way
out of my league with all you C++ programmers and experts.
Second, I want to thank all of you for your hard work. Compared to what
is available f
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