I have just released BPBible 0.4.5, with comments on verses, significant improvements to topic management, selection of book name language, and other improvements. While this release is particularly important for those who use topic management, I strongly recommend that all users upgrade. A fairly complete list of changes is at http://bpbible.com/news/bpbible-0.4.5-changes. |
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after installing the new version, i cant add none of the bibles
http://piccy.info/view/156349d4fba5107ee5f3f1bcd752a869/
Error in installing books
It looks like the error in installing books is due to not being able to read the topics for topic management. If this is a new installation, then the most likely reason is that it cannot write to the file. If it is an existing installation and you have created topics then the file is probably corrupted (though I hope not).
The file should be stored in the system application data directory for your username, which should be writable. If you still have problems please give the operating system.
Thanks,
Jon
I've been using portable
I've been using portable version in the past, and now i've upgraded to the latest version, which is not portable.
Might it be because of that?
And what is the reason to make non-standalone version? It gets more problems then bonuses.
Now BPBible cant open any Bible version file...
Please elaborate
You mention that the latest version is not portable. I don't know what you refer to there, since there is a portable version (http://portableapps.com/apps/education/bpbible_portable). Are you not using it, or do you think it unportable for some reason?
As to the error, as explained this is due to the topic management. I am still trying to understand why it is failing. It is a problem that this then breaks the whole application, for which I have raised an issue (http://code.google.com/p/bpbible/issues/detail?id=105).
If BPBible 0.4.4 Portable still works for you, I would recommend returning to it for now.
Yes, this one does work.The
Yes, this one does work, thanx.
The point is, when i was about to upgrade, there was no 0.4.5 version available.
What i meant about unportable, is the original BPBible application. Why can't you make BPBible standalone application, so no need for additional stuff, like "portableapps.com"?
Portability of BPBible
BPBible is natively able to be a portable application. The main difference, from memory, is whether the paths to write files point to the system's user directory or to somewhere on a USB key. Installing to a USB key is a different use case with different expected behaviour from a normal Windows application. A normal Windows application is installed in Program Files, where the ordinary user is unable to write, and it wouldn't make any sense to write there, so BPBible writes in the user's application directory. On a USB key, it is expected that you write somewhere within the USB key, so that's where BPBible is configured to write. Both are valid use cases, and so we support both. The principle reason for difference in release times is that we are able to release BPBible directly, while BPBible Portable has to be approved and released by PortableAps.
Can you make also .zip'ed
Can you make also .zip'ed standalone preinstalled releases as well?
Basically for me it is much better to download/unzip/use the application, instead of installing it every time.
And as i said - autoupdates would be nice to see in the future releases. You can check how they made it in Postbox application (postbox-inc.com). Its just checking against new version, then downloading the file, unpacking new files, and restarst the application.
Official
BPBible Portable as distributed by PortableApps.com and BPBible.com is our official portable build. There's no need for a ZIP archive or similar, they're bigger (ZIP will never be as small as LZMA), they're less convenient really for maintaining version compatibility (the PortableApps.com Installer cleans up the old version, etc.) or integrity, and we don't plan to support them. PortableApps.com is also moving toward having the original software publisher doing the hosting of the portable application (I'm involved there as well as here).
I can't think of a single reason to go with ZIPs over the current PortableApps.com Installer system which works well. If you can, feel free to mention it.
Auto-updating is likely to come with BPBible XUL. Postbox is just a XULRunner application (as it says, based on Mozilla code, etc.) and so handles it the same way as Mozilla applications do, and as we will (I presume).