Hi Troy,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Troy A. Griffitts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scribe@crosswire.org" target="_blank">scribe@crosswire.org</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 have 2 things I'd like for us to discuss and finalize fairly quickly<br>
if that's at all possible ;)<br>
<br>
1) As we discussed in the past, I think we all agreed it would be useful<br>
to add an official .conf entry for navigating to the purchase URL for a<br>
locked module. Currently the user has to scan the About section to find<br>
this. If we added:<br>
<br>
UnlockURL=<br>
<br>
would it be feasible we could have fairly rapid support for spawning an<br>
HTML viewer to this URL from our major frontends?<br></blockquote><div> <br>This makes sense. If it were standardised we might put it in for BPBible 0.5, but I wouldn't guarantee it at this stage.<br><br>Is this something that could get out of date? A publisher changes their URL schema and suddenly that link no longer works?<br>
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2) Current Events: I'd like to have a:<br>
<br>
NEWS.txt<br>
<br>
or some such file recognized at the root of our remote module<br>
repositories which allow publishers to let interested users know what's<br>
going on at their institution. I envision a simple memo control showing<br>
the contents of this file in our applications' installer view when<br>
showing a repository's resources.<br>
<br>
I can add a method to InstallMgr's InstallSource class: SWBuf getNews(),<br>
or something similar.<br>
<br>
<br>
I have ideas about how publishers could support multiple languages:<br>
<br>
NEWS.txt<br>
<a href="http://NEWS.txt.de" target="_blank">NEWS.txt.de</a><br>
<a href="http://NEWS.txt.es" target="_blank">NEWS.txt.es</a><br>
<br>
with proper defaults and such, but does this concept sound like<br>
something we'd all be willing to implement, and in what timeframe?<br></blockquote><div><br>Several thoughts on this:<br>1. Is this the most appropriate place to display it?<br>2. Will it be kept up to date? (I get frustrated by websites, etc. that have news older than a year or two old, and are either no longer doing anything or have given up telling me new things).<br>
3. Is it duplicating information shown elsewhere? Does it mean just another thing for publishers to remember to keep up to date?<br>4. What degree of formatting will be needed/wanted in this news?<br><br>I would be inclined to suggest the following instead:<br>
1. Module repositories have some kind of a description or about section. This states the purpose of repository, etc., and is hopefully much less likely to change or be out of date.<br>2. Module repositories can have a URL to the main site for that module repository. This could be the main page of the publisher or a special page for the SWORD repository or whatever else the publisher chooses. If they want to have news I would probably expect it more to be on a feed on a webpage somewhere than in InstallMgr. This also means those who come across it who are not using SWORD get the same information, and there are no compromises to force-fit the news to what frontends will support.<br>
<br>You could support something like this with a fairly standard conf file at the base of the repository. Maybe other fields could be included as well (such as a display name for the repository), but it seems to me a bit arbitrary to have news and nothing else, and I'm not sure that I follow the reasoning.<br>
<br>Thoughts?<br><br>Jon<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hope everyone has had a very wonderful Christmas filled with family,<br>
friends, and love.<br>
<br>
<br>
Troy<br>
<br>
<br>
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