On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 14:45, John Stovall wrote: > But for third world missionary efforts in my opinion the > emphasis of Sword needs to be turned towards very easy to use > Linux modules.
I concur. I have a couple of suggestions for making Sword easier to install and use: - firstly, the website, I notice it has been improved since last time I looked at it, however I still find it a little hard to navigate around. In particular, the "software" link should have it's name changed to "download" in my view. Whenever I go to a page with oss/free s/ware on it, once I have decided I want to obtain the software, I immediately look for that word; I think most people do the same. Also, I think the links should be slightly bigger and more prominent. - When downloading modules, there are two types of downloads, "raw", and "windows". I suggest there should be a download in .tar.gz format, called a "unix" download. It should contain a Makefile, which will automatically install the module, rather than requiring the user to know where to put the files. - It would also be good to have RPMs, as this is a widely used format under Linux. David.
