[sword-devel] Module Installation

Chris Little sword-devel@crosswire.org
Wed, 04 Feb 2004 11:17:33 -0800


Joe Walker wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm adding a module downloader to JSword, and not being totally sure how 
> to get it to work.
> 
> The current algorithm goes like this:
> 
> - download "mods.d.tar.gz" from the given directory
> - unpack, and select a module
> - from the config file for a module pick the DataPath element
> - download all the files from that directory (without recursing
>   down the tree) into a directory of the same name within your
>   sword modules tree.

No, DO recurse down the tree.  Failing to do that will fail to grab all 
of the files in at least two modules I can think of.

--Chris