Notices

Thanks for the reply.

Rapier is nice and has been a useful app for me for several years, but I would love to lend my hand in anyway to Katana.

I have developed a couple apps for Maemo 3 (mostly to control my robotics projects) and have been studying up on the Maemo 5 Hildon framework. I will take a look at the Katana page on Monday I guess, and if someone wants to take the lead and tell me where you want me to do some work go for it. I don't mind doing grunt work. If not I will just take a look and start lending a hand where I feel I can help.

I have to thank everyone that is contributing to this, I have been wanting something like this for a while now but complacency with Rapier has kept me from doing anything of my own. I know Katana is going to be great.

Ok, I re-did the sword package. I fixed my mistake in the dependencies (thanks!). I also split out the binaries into "sword-tools" for you Pierre. So you can depend on sword-tools16, python-sword16

Nathan

Cool, thanks.

I ll give it a try.

About your patch, the whole set has been commited:

https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scm...&r1=217&r2=218

I added some try/except block when importing module as it seems what works on my sdk does not on yours. This way, both way are try.

About the problem when there is no existing Sword directory, it may be related to the lack of "/usr/share/sword" template directory in the sword16 package (when there is no default directory existing, rapier creates one based on the content of this directory).

I ll try to understand why is it so, and see if i can change that.

Oh, and i ll also check if /usr/bin/mkfastmod is there (it s needed too).

Good news: Rapier works now (at least seemed to) with the latest svn change if the sword package actually includes the whole /usr/share/sword/* directory, and not only the locales (it needs this as a default module repository to copy file from). Can this be changed in sword16 ?

Bad news: the drive that i used for my dekstop and for storing virtual machines just died, so i have no more desktop, nor sdk for a while.

Sorry, I'm not sure what you are wanting from the /usr/share/sword/ directory. I have no issues modifying the sword package, if I missed something -- I'll try and de-install all of sword from my dev env and see if I can figure out what it needs (unless you know off the top of your head?) Is the /usr/share/sword/* in the -dev package?

Once I figure out what it is missing (in the sword libs for you); do you want me to "package" it and submitting it to the builders to (still leaving you as the maintainer) to get it online for others?

Nathan.

Nathan, how helpful would it before me to send you periodic source code dumps of my work? I'm currently committing to my own SVN repository, but I'd be happy to send you my work-in-progress if you would like.

As an aside, I'm currently working on searching. After that, I think I'll try to develop a first-run dialog to download texts as appropriate. It's a little bit of a shot-in-the-dark experience, since I don't have a finished SDK or a real device to work with, but it sure is fun!

You could look into using the Maemo Garage SVN.

Throwing this out there as a request, and for some reason I didn't ask about this before, but it hit just a few min ago when doing some admin work at the Bible+ (PalmOS-based Bible reader) site.

Is there any way that in addtion to the Sword support (since that seems pretty much the way the developers are thinking of going), that support for the .pdb Bibles used by Bible+ could also be supported by Katana?

I ask for two reasons: one, people coming from Palm devices to Maemo5 devices would have an excellent option towards keeping the nice amount of BIbles they have created or downloaded. And two, it would extend some of the effects of the great work already done for a mobile-friendly (and quite compact) Bible format.

For those interested, the Bible+ website is http://palmbibleplus.sourceforge.net - yes, I am the webmaster of that site; not a developer of the application. I would like to see an effort like that continue though.

Thanks for that consideration.

ARJWright, I think that is a great idea.
I just did some research and I found these two major programs for Bibles and Christian materials (Including payware books).

https://www.olivetree.com/
http://www.e-sword.net/bibles.html

It may be worth writing a conversion tool or a plugin so that people who have paid for copyrighted materials on other mobile devices still have access to them; effectively reducing some barriers for entry to Maemo.

I think there are a number of documented formats that use pdb, and probably some that are proprietary. I'm not sure which these are, but the commercial ones may be closed.

The wikipedia page on ebook formats was a useful read when i was looking into this (before y'all resurrected rapier overnight).