[bt-devel] 64-bit Personal Commentary problems

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 14:02 +0300, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> Quoting "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com>:
> > I am running Bibletime 1.6.4 out of the Ubuntu repositories on fully
> > patched Hardy (8.0.4 I believe) with libsword6 version 1.5.9-8 also out
> > of the Ubuntu repositories on an AMD64 laptop.
> >
> > There is still a problem where personal comments are saved with file
> > names that are either much larger than expected (I believe they are
> > supposed to be a numeric sequence) or contain bad characters.  I do not
> > know for sure but this smells like a 32 bit to 64 bit conversion problem
> > with bit manipulation.
> 
> Both Martin and I have now new 64bit machines so we have to look at  
> this sooner or later :) But you probably guessed right that this is a  
> Sword problem rather than BibleTime. It's also possible that it's been  
> fixed in sword because 1.5.9 is quite old.
> 
> >
> > Also, once I create the comment, I cannot edit it.  I can input the
> > edits but, if I leave the verse and return, the changes are gone.  This
> > is not a permissions issue as you can see from the file list below.
> 
> We made many bugfixes for 1.6.5 which you can find packaged for  
> Kubuntu. Just follow the instructions in a news item in  
> bibletime.info. I don't remember if this bug was fixed then but it was  
> a known bug.
> 
> --Eeli
> 
Thanks, Eeli.  I just upgraded BibleTime but, alas, the edit problem
persists.  I'll try upgrading Sword to 1.5.11 as soon as I have the time
to.  Thanks again for all you do - John
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