You posted it to the list. :)

> On Jan 18, 2016, at 11:58 AM, Fred Smith <fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:19:24AM -0600, Greg Hellings wrote:
>> I don't have access to a GUI machine with Cent installed at the
>> moment. I haven't noticed an issue with the GTK3 build of Xiphos, but
>> I only do a very cursory check of the builds.
>> 
>> There are both xiphos-gtk2 and xiphos-gtk3 builds in EPEL7 at the
>> moment, and you should be able to install them side-by-side. This is
>> at Karl's request, and is something I have to keep battling the other
>> Xiphos packagers for in the Fedora/EPEL build system. Sometimes
>> someone at RedHat goes on a rampage to destroy all GTK2 packages from
>> places where upstream supports GTK3 and I have to then restore the
>> dual build.
> 
> those who seek "purity" sometimes become rather over-zealous! :)
> 
> FYI, in case you care, there is a short video at 
> users.rcn.com/fredricksmith/xiphos/xiphos-flash.ogv 
> <http://users.rcn.com/fredricksmith/xiphos/xiphos-flash.ogv> that illustrates
> the issue.
> 
> I sent this directly to you, not posted to the list, because I don't
> especially want hundreds of people connecting to my pages on rcn.com 
> <http://rcn.com/>.
> 
> Fred
>> 
>> --Greg
>> 
>> --Greg
>> 
>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Fred Smith
>> <fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:05:52AM -0600, Greg Hellings wrote:
>>>> Fred,
>>>> 
>>>> Please tell me which parts of Xiphos are not provided in EPEL.
>>>> 
>>>> yum info xiphos-gtk3
>>>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
>>>> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>>>> * base: centos.arvixe.com
>>>> * epel: fedora-epel.mirror.lstn.net
>>>> * extras: dallas.tx.mirror.xygenhosting.com
>>>> * updates: mirror.fusioncloud.co
>>>> Available Packages
>>>> Name        : xiphos-gtk3
>>>> Arch        : x86_64
>>>> Version     : 4.0.3
>>>> Release     : 1.el7
>>>> 
>>>> The specific quote you were asking about is addressing the iOS client, 
>>>> though.
>>>> 
>>>> --Greg
>>> 
>>> Hi Greg!
>>> 
>>> I built my own because (at the time) EPEL did not provide Xiphos 4.x,
>>> nor a compatible modern Sword library. I haven't looked recently to see
>>> if those things now are in EPEL. it may be that they now are there,
>>> mooting my need to rebuild in the future.
>>> 
>>> on a different note:
>>> BTW, there is (or was) some problem in the GTK3 build of Xiphos that
>>> cause bizarre flashing on the module manager screens (don't recall if it
>>> also occurred on other screens), that Karl reported did not occur with
>>> the GTK2 build. As a result I stopped using the GTK3 build on my machines,
>>> hoping that somebody, somewhere, some day would fix GTK3. Has anyone
>>> looked at the epel3 xiphos-GTK3 build to see if it exhibits the same
>>> issue?
>>> 
>>> Fred
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Fred Smith
>>>> <fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 03:16:54AM -0800, David Haslam wrote:
>>>>>> Updated news from Nic.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "I believe that all apps and updates needed to be compiled for 64 bit by 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> middle of last year."
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> FWIW, I've been compiling Xihos (and all its dependencies that aren't
>>>>> provided by Centos/epel--i.e., I've compiled Sword, lucene, biblesync)
>>>>> for Cenots 7.x (Linux) as 64-bit for some months now.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Or are you referring to some other platform?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Fred
>>>>>> then later he replied:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ----
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have yet to look. I gave things a try about 2 years ago and saw they
>>>>>> didn’t work out of the box. I switched back to 32-bit and haven’t looked 
>>>>>> at
>>>>>> it again since, sorry.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Having a 20 second look now, CURL will need updating (easy). clucene will
>>>>>> need updating (hopefully easy?). The Zip utilities I use need updating. 
>>>>>> The
>>>>>> HTTP server stuff I use (for MMM) needs updating.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> A fresh compile when I have enabled what Apple wants me to enable 
>>>>>> generates
>>>>>> 374 warnings (perhaps more, we’d need to eliminate them to see if there 
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> still more left?) and 4 errors (in CURL because of arch issues).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Looking at more of the warnings, some are from libsword itself.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ok, 2 minutes of cleaning up and . . .  same warnings but only 3 errors 
>>>>>> now.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yup, it will need a bit of work to make it 64-bit ready, but hopefully 
>>>>>> most
>>>>>> of the work will have been done by others in the 3rd party libs that are
>>>>>> causing issues.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> David
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> View this message in context: 
>>>>>> http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/64-bit-operating-system-support-tp4655699p4655839.html
>>>>>> Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>>>>> 
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>>>>> -----------------------------
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>>>>>             Those who do what is right can run to him for safety.
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>>> -----------------------------
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>>> glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our 
>>> Savior
>>> be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, 
>>> before
>>>                     all ages, now and forevermore! Amen."
>>> ----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) 
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