On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Troy A. Griffitts <scr...@crosswire.org>wrote:
> Dear Frontend Teams, > > I'm planning to burn CDs for people (about 60) who have requested them > (yes, we still get occasional CD requests), and was wondering if you might > wish to update your stuff in the 'latest' ISO folder here which is the root > from where we build the ISO. > > ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/**sword/iso/latest/<ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/iso/latest/> > > I'll update the modules and clean off the ridiculously archaic blobs of > whatever. > Is your intention for this CD to include software based off of 1.6.2 or will 1.7 be finished before that for front-ends to target? --Greg > > Historically, we've tried to include installers for Mac, Windows, and > Linux. I'm conceding to give up on the Linux software (on the CD), so we > should probably just remove all of our Linux binary bundles. > > These installers should be configured to allow installing of modules from > the CD. The InstallMgr class supports installation not just from a remote > source, but from a local path as well. If your installers could add the > root of the CD path as an install source, that would be excellent. > > We also try to make things run from the CD if possible. I know BPBible > has a 'portable' install for this and some of our other frontends run find > from the CD as well. If there is a binary you can place somewhere on the > CD that, when double clicked, it can start and find it's modules from the > CD (at least), that would be great. SWORD looks in the current folder for > modules, so if you place your binary in the root of the CD, it might just > magically work. Otherwise, you could have a subdirectory with your stuff > and include a sword.conf which specifies a datapath of ../ or something. > Just ideas. > > You can download the latest ISO image from here so you can locally update > it and play to test how your stuff works. > > ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/**sword/iso/<ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/iso/> > > When you get it working well, if you could update the crosswire.org: > /home/sword/ftp/**pub/sword/iso/latest/ with your stuff, that would be > great. I'm also happy to update the CD autorun splash screens with > anything you'd like. Not sure how this works on a Mac, but we launch a > silly little windows app with buttons to launch each installer. > > We could also think about instructions to help people burn this to a thumb > drive. > > Thanks for any help, > > Troy > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/**mailman/listinfo/sword-devel<http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel> > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >
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