AFAIK there’s no module conf key that works as the opposite to Obsoletes=
David
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On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 20:30, Michael H <cma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible that the modules and .conf can sunset ... pointing across
> repositories to the new replacement? I know there is some facility to name a
> successor module in the conf/updating process, but can it name one on another
> site?
>
> If that is possible, Some of the out of date editions of the WEB should be
> removed from Crosswire (WMB, etc.) It might help the remaining editions get
> updated with more frequency.
>
> On the other side of that, ebible has added several works from Crosswire onto
> it's Web directory and I see at least some of these on the ebible sword repo.
> However, As far as I can tell, these modules are not actually changing
> visible content every time they update. It's more that defects introduced by
> the transfer to ebible have been eliminated, so that they now represent a
> truer copy of the original at Crosswire. These shouldn't be removed from
> either, but maybe the ebible repo could be clearer that it's presenting
> content from Crosswire, and not changing it.
>
> Is it possible the ebible repository could be divided into sub repos, like
> the crosswire site has ? It would be nice to select ebible-english, or
> ebible-americas and have a list of only 20 or 100 languages to scroll
> through, vs. selecting ebible creates 1000 entries to search in Bibletime,
> which seems to have difficulty with that number... so the screen updates get
> 10 second to a couple minutes behind the keystrokes and mouse clicks when
> I've selected ebible for downloading?
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:11 AM Cyrille <lafricai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> Actually my worry was about a question between the module team. We have
>> duplicated modules, in Crosswire and in ebible.org. Often the ebible.org
>> are updated and not in Crosswire. And we are very slow to update the new
>> module in Crosswire. Then I proposed to remove in the Crosswire repo,
>> all the old modules with issue reported on the bug tracker. But the
>> question was: What to do if the users don't know how to change the repo,
>> as it happened in the other post on this list, some of us didn't know
>> how to change for IBT in Xiphos.
>> I Bibletime, Andbible and Bishop, the repositories are updated all
>> together, but not in Xiphos. I opened an issue about this on the xiphos git.
>> For this reason I proposed this for Swordpocket, even if it seems to be
>> more or less easier than for Xiphos.
>>
>> Br Cyrille
>>
>> Le 13/03/2020 à 04:14, Nic Carter a écrit :
>>> On the downloads screen, tap on the folder icon in the top right corner,
>>> then refresh the source list.
>>> That will show all servers in the Master Server List.
>>>
>>> Sent from my phone, hence this email may be short...
>>>
>>>> On 13/03/2020, at 09:24, Cyrille <lafricai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Michael,
>>>> Maybe add the updating of all the repositories at once, as with Andbible
>>>> and Bishop. This will help users who don't know they are other
>>>> repository as ebible.org...
>>>> My 2 cents :)
>>>>
>>>> Br Cyrille
>>>>
>>>>> Le 12/03/2020 à 20:30, Michael Johnson a écrit :
>>>>> Hello, my brothers and sisters in Christ.
>>>>>
>>>>> I just thought I should post a status on PocketSword work. I have started
>>>>> on updating it, but haven't yet gotten to a stable point for testing
>>>>> using Test Flight. Right now, it is, unfortunately, on hold, as I have
>>>>> another task in the foreground. I finished the main editing of the World
>>>>> English Bible, with the exception of still correcting the occasional rare
>>>>> typo. (I found one this morning in Ezekiel.) My foreground task at the
>>>>> moment is integrating SILE into Haiola for better PDF generation,
>>>>> especially
>>>>> with mixed complex scripts. After that is done, I hope to focus on
>>>>> PocketSword. In its new incarnation, it will generate its own indexes,
>>>>> and won't need special server support for that. I'll also fix the key
>>>>> problem for when a module goes from locked to unlocked, which of course,
>>>>> will happen as copyrights expire and/or special permission is granted.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for your patience.
>>>>>
>>>>
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