[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Packaging Sword modules

[Daniel Glassey]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Daniel Glassey <dglassey at gmail.com> wrote:
> The history behind the packaging of modules was that when the
> packaging was started there was no such thing as installmgr or the
> frontend module installers. Users had to go to crosswire.org, find the
> zip they wanted, and extract in the right place.
>
> There was also the little matter of one of the frontends crashing if
> you didn't have at least 1 bible, 1 commentary and 1 lex-dict!
>
> So I attempted to package a fairly minimal set. Folks in Ubuntu have
> taken a different view since then which I would like to hear :)

I'd forgotten that someone else in Debian took a different view as
well ;). I've invited Roberto C. Sanchez who maintains a few sword
module packages in Debian that I didn't create to join in this
discussion.

Regards,
Daniel