[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Thoughts on sword-frontend and packaging sword modules

[DM Smith]

On 08/17/2009 03:16 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> 2009/8/17 DM Smith<dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>:
>    
>> CrossWire does not maintain original source, except for the KJV. The reason
>> is fairly straightforward: we rely on primary sources and once converted
>> into a module the desired information has been captured.
>>
>>      
>
> And there never was a bug in the converters which required module
> regeneration ???
>
> Although this might be sufficient for Crosswire, it is not to meet
> Debian Free Software Guidelines. Source package in debian should have
> original source in preferred form of modification. This is indeed a
> bit weird for a bible, unless there are markup mistakes or possibly
> translation mistakes (which I daubt) or e.g. encoding.
>
> And as xiphos module manager suggestions in some places people might
> be prosecuted and / or discriminated. Free operating systems as debian
> would allow people for example translate Bible and further distribute.
>
>    
>> While I have argued that we should maintain copies of these originals and
>> the scripts that converted them, it is not going to happen. AFAICT, the
>> reason is that CrossWire does not want to become a secondary source of
>> primary material. Each module's conf should give the location of the primary
>> source. (I say should because it is not very accurate, especially when the
>> holder of the primary keeps moving it around w/o maintaining permanent
>> links.)
>>
>>      
>
> Well I'll try to pick out most widely used =)
>
>
>    
>> You are welcomed to the KJV text that I maintain.
>>
>>      
>
> Thank you. Would you please spare a link? To canonical url and/or
> revision repository. Cause my google-foo failed me.
>    
See: www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/kjv2006

The version that I have there has been made into a module that is now in 
beta.


-- DM

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