[sword-devel] SWORD CD ISO

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Hey guys,

Our CD ISO is horribly outdated. I still get occasional requests for
CDs (about 2 per month) and I would guess people still might download
the ISO and burn CDs themselves. We have too many modules now to fix on
1 CD.

Do you guys have any thoughts as to what we should do with this?

We have a quite a few nice feature for building an install media: you
can define a set of preselected modules for installation, so the media
could contain 300 modules, but say, 25 could be preselected so when you
go to install, it is ready with a default module set.

You can typically run most SWORD apps directly from the media without
installing.

We have secured permission to include a few Gospel tracts so churches or
other organizations can hand these out and have them autorun a
presentation of the Gospel.

Anyway, our ISO update script grabs all the latest main-repo modules
when updating the ISO image, but we might want to include some of the
other repos we host, as well (Wycliffe?).

Other software?

Expand to a full DVD image and split to 2 CD ISOs?

These are just thoughts on the top of my head. Any input? Anyone
excited to maintain something like this?

Troy

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Sorry, it might be useful to include a link to the ISO stuff, for quick
reference:

http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/iso/

the 'lastest' folder has the ISO files expanded and is our staging area
for the next image. You can see the structure of the files in there.
You will need to use the ftp:// protocol to browse the files, however,
because there is a tract there as index.html

ftp://crosswire.org/pub/sword/iso/latest/

Post by Troy A. Griffitts
Hey guys,
Our CD ISO is horribly outdated. I still get occasional requests for
CDs (about 2 per month) and I would guess people still might download
the ISO and burn CDs themselves. We have too many modules now to fix
on 1 CD.
Do you guys have any thoughts as to what we should do with this?
We have a quite a few nice feature for building an install media: you
can define a set of preselected modules for installation, so the media
could contain 300 modules, but say, 25 could be preselected so when
you go to install, it is ready with a default module set.
You can typically run most SWORD apps directly from the media without
installing.
We have secured permission to include a few Gospel tracts so churches
or other organizations can hand these out and have them autorun a
presentation of the Gospel.
Anyway, our ISO update script grabs all the latest main-repo modules
when updating the ISO image, but we might want to include some of the
other repos we host, as well (Wycliffe?).
Other software?
Expand to a full DVD image and split to 2 CD ISOs?
These are just thoughts on the top of my head. Any input? Anyone
excited to maintain something like this?
Troy
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