[sword-devel] Fedora packager?

[Matěj Cepl]

On Wed Jul 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM CEST, Greg Hellings wrote:
> For a while I've been the basket holder for packaging the CrossWire related
> packages in Fedora. These include:
>
> biblesync
> mingw-biblesync
> sword
> mingw-sword
> xiphos
> bibletime

I completely hear you (as a SUSE employee, I am in the same
situation and maintaining packages blindly without having an
actual Fedora machine at hand is such a challenge, that I am left
with only two relatively uncomplicated packages: lout and dictd),
but yet I have to ask: isn’t the year 2025 the time when we
should stop maintaining all these complicated toolchains multiple
times? Shouldn’t be there just a Flatpak for BibleTime [1],
Xiphos [2], using just one shared runtime of Sword and Biblesync
(and I have no idea how well maintained those two particular
Flatpaks are, BibleTime seems to be at least kept up-to-date)?
Isn’t that whole multiplication of the effort just waste of time?

Blessings,

Matěj

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/info.bibletime.BibleTime
[2] https://flathub.org/apps/org.xiphos.Xiphos
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