Re: [be] Bibledit Bloat

[Jonathan Marsden]

Teus Benschop wrote:

> The installation package of Bibledit gets bloated, but the program 
> itself remain lean and fast. The bloat in the package is caused by
> the addition of several resources to it. Recently it got a full KJV
> Bible included, including Strong's markup, and today it got a full
> USFM description (4 Mbyte) included as well, bringing the total
> package size to now 11 Mbyte. It already has a lot of keyterms. And
> soon more resources are going to be added to it, increasing the size
> rapidly. What do you guys think of how to handle this? Thanks for
> hints. Teus.

One approach is to package the extra data separately, so users can 
choose whether or not to install such additional items.  This means that 
the base bibledit tarball would not include these "extras", and Bibledit 
must be able to run and work fine when they are not present.

For large documents such as KJV and the USFM description, would it be 
worth considering making these accessible within BE using the SWORD 
library -- this way, documents are added by installing SWORD modules, so 
a user who reads the KJV in BibleTime or Xiphos re-uses that same SWORD 
module inside Bibledit?  This would also make the USFM description 
document readable in other SWORD-enabled software.

I realize there may be good reasons not to use SWORD in Bibledit, or a 
historical choice may have been made not to use it, but if things are 
now changing so BE wants access to multiple large documents, including 
bibles, perhaps it is time to look into using SWORD for that?  Making 
the new resources which you refer to available as SWORD modules then (a) 
keeps Bibledit small and (b) makes the resources more widely available 
to others.

If SWORD is not a good fit, then some other systematic means of creating 
multiple separate data modules which BE can use seems like a good way to 
go.  This would allow each user to decide which data modules they want 
to install and use, rather than force all BE users to download and 
install all of them.

Jonathan