[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Bible Desktop

[Daniel Glassey]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:22 PM, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm interested in seeing about packaging Bible Desktop. It is a java
> program and can run with openjdk 1.6 or better (or Sun's Java 1.4.2 or
> better)
> I'm not at all familiar with packaging for Debian type systems and only
> a bit with RPM ones.

For whoever takes it on there is lots of info at
http://wiki.debian.org/Java

> Bible Desktop uses the following at runtime (where @release.version@ is
> currently 1.6.0):
>
> The following are the JSword and BibleDesktop jars:
> bibledesktop- at release.version@.jar
> jsword- at release.version@.jar
> jsword-common- at release.version@.jar
> jsword-common-swing- at release.version@.jar
>
> These can be built using ant from source in svn
> (http://crosswire.org/svn/jsword/trunk).
>
> The following are 3rd party code we currently use (we can use some prior
> version and any newer version):

Packages found in Debian lenny:

> javatar-2.5.jar
Package libjavatar-java

> jdom-1.0.jar
/usr/share/java/jdom1.jar and /usr/share/java/jdom1-1.0.jar in libjdom1-java

> commons-codec-1.3.jar
Package libcommons-codec-java

> commons-httpclient-3.1.jar
Package libcommons-httpclient-java

> commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
Package libcommons-logging-java

> commons-net-1.4.1.jar
Package  	 libcommons-net-java

> lucene-core-2.3.2.jar
2.3.1 in  liblucene2-java

> lucene-snowball-2.3.2.jar
2.3.1 in liblucene2-java

> lucene-analyzers-2.3.2.jar
2.3.1 in liblucene2-java

> icu4j-3_8_1.jar (optional)
Not in Debian yet
Only found in Ubuntu jaunty so should be included with BIbledesktop
(if that option is taken) on earlier distros.

> jlfgr-1_0.jar (Sun's Java look and feel graphics repository)
Not found so it should either be included with the BIbleDesktop
package or packaged separately

Thanks, there is something familiar about a lot of this list *blush*

> While it might not make this freeze, hopefully it can the next.

Indeed.

Thanks and HTH,
Daniel