<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">I just thought of something. all the windows 98 machines I know of have companion dvd-rom drives in them. all replacement drives these days are going to be dvd-roms or DVD burners.<br><div><br>I think we could do a DVD ISO with xiphos in the package. <br><br>what do you think?<br></div><div style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jim Michaels <jmichae3@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> sword-developer forum <sword-devel@crosswire.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, September
6, 2010 1:19:29 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [sword-devel] updated sword project ISO<br></font><br>
<div style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the Sword Project ISO needs updating.<br>a new app that will be added to the collection as a user choice is Xiphos.<br>I was told there is a need for someone to facilitate/manage this project (after a discussion about a Xiphos ISO). I am new to all this, I have only been a user of Xiphos and the Sword Project.<br><br>I am also willing to contribute to the windows part of the effort any way I can. <br>- I can write NSIS installers, that's easy. <br>- I can also write simple windows apps in Auto-It3 ( makes dialogs to launch other programs) with a few lines of code - it's sort of like BASIC, but it can control things.<br>- I can write command-line C++ apps, if that's of any use. I usually combine that with the above.<br><span><span>- I can build ISOs, I have
mkisofs for windows (I get it from <a target="_blank" href="http://sf.net/projects/cdrtfe">http://sf.net/projects/cdrtfe</a>, a cd burning program that uses a cdrtools port from UNIX).</span></span><br><br>I am not quite sure how well mac resources will work on my PC... maybe the mac stuff should be a universal dmg? there are a number of mac platforms to target.... and I am not entirely familiar with the mac platform, but I do make mac apps available on my own ISOs, so I am not totally blind either.<br><br>If there is nobody to write the replacement windows front-end app, I could do it easily, but it won't look as good as the old one. the new one is going to have to call a different installer rather than directly run<br><br>My understanding is that there are pre-built software components that simply need to be assembled in the right way, with the possible exception of the front end app (I could be wrong)?<br><div> <br>A cd
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store 738MB (not MiB), so there should be room for more of the sword project, but xiphos is 25MB and the sword project is 714MB which is 1MB over the top, so xiphos is not going to fit in a cd per se, but it would fit in a DVD ISO. there are still working cd drives out there, I have a client who has 2 and my mom has 2. I figure it will be about 5 years or less before all the cd drives will be replaced with dvd's.<br><br>we are probably going to have to update again when Xiphos is capable of getting books from a cd. I understand that currently it doesn't. So at some point in the future, we could make a DVD ISO that includes Xiphos?<br><br>anyone interested? what do you think?<br><br>I usually type in pretty much all lower case.<br><br><br><br></div>------------<br>Jim Michaels<br>jmichae3@yahoo.com<br>JimM@JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com<br><span><a target="_blank"
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