I've really had to think about this one a while before following up, and I have to say that I just don't know from where some ideas emanate.
"Troy A. Griffitts" <[email protected]> writes: > The Xiphos repo hosts brave modules which give newer features, but > which might not yet be fully tested on all platforms (I hope this is a > fair characterization). Well... No, not really. Not even close, for at least 3 qualifiers. I don't know how the adjective "brave" comes into use here. It's just a set of ~70 modules in need of a distribution home. Some of them are stupefyingly ordinary, some are extraordinarily large, some have styles of content that aren't found anywhere else. We've got the only maps modules, for example. As for "newer features," er, no -- generally, they use no markup that isn't commonly seen in many others. A larger than usual number are ThML instead of OSIS, for what we consider good and practical reasons that I won't belabor now, which certainly puts to bed any idea that we're exploiting capability not already in use elsewhere. I don't grasp from where the idea of "not tested on all platforms" comes. Since I began producing modules of my own, in 2006, I've regularly tested with Xiphos, BibleCS, BibleTime, and sometimes BibleDesktop. I figure that at least one of those would show a problem if there was something actually wrong. I've so seldom seen display problems occur that, these days, I no longer test modules beyond Xiphos and BibleCS. This *persistent* but *false* idea that modules found in Xiphos repo are untested is particularly disturbing and annoying to me. Download a few modules in your favorite frontend, experiment, and find me any problem. Then, and only then, resume complaining about problems of insufficient testing. We who have authored modules for public use that are distributed from Xiphos repo are, in fact, just as good at such tasks as anyone else producing modules present in any other repo. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
