Package: sword Severity: wishlist Please provide a libsword-python package of the python SWIG bindings for libsword.
I have two purposes in mind: First, I wanted to evaluate the GPL'd, python-based BPBible package, which is not yet in Debian (see http://bpbible.com/) but looks like a suitable candidate. In its README.txt gives these instructions for building python bindings: If you want to install them under Linux, the procedure will probably be: <change into the bindings/swig directory of the SWORD source code> cd package ./configure make pythonswig make python_make cd python python setup.py install After installing the necessary dependencies, I did this and successfully locally installed the python bindings. BPBible runs fine after this with: cd <path-to-bpbible> python bpbible.py After I used "File -> Set Sword Paths" to add /usr/share/sword and ~/.sword, BPBible finds and uses the sword modules I installed from Debian packages and using the module manager in Xiphos. Second, in addition to being useful to run BPBible, I have it in mind (in my copious amounts of spare time ;) to do some of my own programming with the bindings. I would like to make a VIM script in python enabling easy insertion of sword texts into a document. VIMoutliner is my preferred outliner for taking notes of sermons and at Bible study group. While I could always use Xiphos or Diatheke to export a scripture and then paste it into the outliner, this is cumbersome and diverts attention from listening to the speaker. My idea to solve this is to bind some VIM key to read a sword reference from the current document, e.g. "(ESV:Rom 8:1-4)", and insert the text before or after the reference text. Of course, I could have vim shell out and use diatheke to fetch the text, but that seems clumsy compared to using python bindings to accomplish the same thing. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
