<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Peter von Kaehne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:refdoc@gmx.net">refdoc@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I think Troy, the concern is correct.<br>
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For the publisher with some decent IT muscle and budget a proper repo must be better, but for the small town church with a website and a couple of modules to share - zip and http is a must.<br>
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Having a multiplicity of methods of getting modules into the system would certainly be easier.<br>
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My preference:<br>
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1) keep current methods - it is best for huge numbers of modules and it is probably also best for anyone with enough money to have a fixed ip and a server, able to run anonymous ftp<br>
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2) add methods for local installation of zips. Look at MK Bible - pull a zip over the programme and it gets installed. This is - emphatically - not how I would want to install a large selection of modules or how I would want to publish the same, but it is probably the best usability i have seen for a frontend using only 2-3 modules (which is what MKBible is laid out for) and a small time publisher or someone who has target audience of little computer literacy<br>
</blockquote><div> <br>It's capable of far more than just dealing with small numbers of books when you have two tools:<br>1. DownThemAll!: Download multiple zips at one go.<br>2. Multi-selection in Explorer / file window: I tried this in MK, and it didn't seem to work correctly, but I probably don't have the latest version. It definitely works in BPBible, and allows you to install multiple books in one go.<br>
<br>(though I'm not convinced that a large percentage has these tools at their disposable or is aware of them).<br><br>While drag and drop installation has a certain coolness factor, I feel having a menu option (like the "File > Install Books" BPBible has, also including multiple book installation) is more discoverable and thus perhaps more useful to the starting off user. Also, people coming from the background of e-Sword or similar tools are probably used to seeing a large collection of books on a web page to download, and when they see a similar list at Crosswire they do the same: download books and look for a way to install them, while some people just like downloading a thing to make sure they have it and could it share it with others if they wanted to (though with "the cloud" this is probably less common than it used to be).<br>
<br>Jon<br></div></div>