Fwd: Gnomesword, libsword, diatheke, sword modules, bibletime
This seems to apply to Debian too (apart from #3).
Regards
Jeff
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From: Refdoc <refdoc@crosswire.org>
Date: Jan 23, 2009 2:45am
Subject: Gnomesword, libsword, diatheke, sword modules, bibletime
To: ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com
> Hi,
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> I am one of the developers at CrossWire. Several of our programmes are
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> in your repository, but they are ancient, often 2 or more releases
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> behind us.
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> I have tried on several occasions to contact the maintainer listed but
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> to little avail.
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> I asked eventually on #ubuntu-devel and was advised to mail to you.
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> As we see it, following is wrong:
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> 1) libsword is at 1.5.11 - if you wait a couple of weeks probably at
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> 1.5.12. You keep 1.5.9. 1.5.9 is nearly 2 years old. The functional
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> increase is massive.
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> 2) libsword should be compiled with ICU to allow it full function. It is
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> not.
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> 3) you should not maintain sword modules as all our programmes have a
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> module manager which will download modules directly. Installing modules
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> via apt-get renders the module manager non-functional as the modules are
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> installed by apt-get into non user writable areas (/usr/share/sword
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> instead of ~/.sword)
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> 4) diatheke is a commandline utility which can if carefully handled also
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> be used as a base for CGI script. The example CGI code coming along with
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> it is not meant to be exposed to the internet - at least not in this
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> form. Therefore the dependency on Apache is wrong. Most users will use
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> diatheke only as commandline routine, never as CGI.
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> 5) Gnomesword is ancient history. All bug reports you have on file for
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> GS are sorted in upodated versions. Our last release was 2.4.1. we are
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> currently moving towards the next release - a week or two.
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> There is probably more to it, but to be honest for years now we direct
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> everyone to our own debs as Ubuntu and Debian are so out of date.
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> I would therefore extremely grateful if someone could take this one up
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> or advise us how to go about submitting a new set of packages ourselves.
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> Thanks!
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