[CS-FSLUG] Could you switch to 100% open source?

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org>wrote:

> sjm <steve at themccrackens.org> writes:
> > (anybody know of a good way to convert the bibles from e-sword to
> > sword?).
>
> You don't want to do that.  Not really.
> http://karl.kleinpaste.org/rick.meyers/
>
> Less than 3 months after that conversation, Rick released v9, making v8
> the shortest-lived major version (~6 months) in e-sword's history.  The
> issue of 3 point releases (to 9.0.3) in less than 4 weeks is as clear an
> indication of rushed-to-release as one could ask.  v9 replaces the old
> Jet/Access method in e-sword with SQLite.
>
> v9 module content is now actually encrypted, instead of bogusly claimed
> to be "protected."  (It never was, in Jet/Access databases.  Protection
> was at the point of purchase, with an unlock code for the *.exe module
> installers, and only there.  I have been told that, even there, the
> *.exe installers could be readily cracked, though I was never told how.)
> v9 does not read the old *.bbl &c at all; you will have to re-download
> and re-install all e-sword-provided modules -- purchased/locked modules
> are retrievable using your previous login + unlock code info -- and run
> a supplied converter against any personally-produced modules, to create
> e.g. *.bblx.  This replace-update-and-convert imposition has caused
> rather a lot of, um, consternation on e-sword mailing lists.
>
> Others have written prototype code for the Sword library so as to
> incorporate v8-and-previous *.bbl directly into any Sword application.
> It is nowhere near ready for prime time, and now probably never will be,
> considering that v8-and-previous modules are an evolutionary tidepool.


Thanks for sharing that news. I just wanted to applaud the move to sqlite
databases. That's a great move for taking the bible to new places.

JSR/

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