From: Peter V. K. <vk...@do...> - 2007-09-21 12:04:31
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:47:45 -0400 Karl Kleinpaste <ka...@kl...> wrote: > Eeli Kaikkonen <eek...@ma...> writes: >> The resolution is to make it depend on sword-text-kjv > > I disagree. > > I contend that to bring along such texts, installed as >root in > /usr/share/sword, rather than letting the user control >all installation > in ~/.sword, is the fundamental bug. It shouldn't be >done at all, not > merely done with a different selection of texts. Users >find that they > cannot delete these texts, and then (per this >discussion) send > complaints wondering what the problem is. Although KJV >is more likely > to be appreciated than AraSVD, there is still no reason >to insist on it, > or to default to it -- the user will pick his own >default on first run. I agree with Karl. I don't use KJV. I install German Elberfelder, a reasonably modern English and Farsi Bibles + any I work on or use as examples for understanding things. We are working hard to make all Crosswire software internationalised and then install an English language relic per default? It does not make sense. I would go even one step further than Karl - having all thes sword mdoules in Ubuntu/Debian repositories is a bug as it introduces two separate ways of handling modules - via Debian package manager and via Sword module manager. > (What does Sword do with identically-named modules in 2 >places? I don't > know, I've never experimented with it.) It uses whichever in preference. It is often a huge problem to figure out which module is actually used. If teh conf files are reasonably identical it will use only one. BibleDesktop is particularly adept in finding and making automatically use of any module presented anywhere - which is not bad thing, but Ubuntu/Debian packages make this more complicated by removing the ability to control things at a user level. Peter > Leave texts' installation entirely to the user. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Gnomesword-developers mailing list > Gno...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnomesword-developers > > > This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl - www.blackspider.com |