Re: [sword-devel] Architecture and issues reporting

2017-02-19 Thread ref...@gmx.net
To be honest, I think this has little mileage.Too many things can go wrong between module, back and front-end and usually requires a person reasonably aware of the overall architecture to determine where a problem belongs. In the end the frustration described I s one common to anyone running a more

[sword-devel] Module upload: AbbottSmithStrongs

2017-02-19 Thread refdoc
Dear All, This is to announce that we have just now uploaded AbbottSmithStrongs. This is is an updated version of AbbottSmithStrongs. Many thanks to update for the hard work. yours The Module Team P.S.: This email is sent automatically on upload of a new/updated module _

Re: [sword-devel] Release Wrapup

2017-02-19 Thread Matt Zabojnik
I don't mean to derail this in any way. I've previously only had experience with HTML/PHP/SQL, and I'm now learning Python (in order to develop a SWORD-related Android app) Would it be beneficial to port the whole project to Python? That seems to be a widely known and easy to learn language. Forgi

Re: [sword-devel] File sharing website

2017-02-19 Thread David Haslam
Assuming the contemplated projects are the digitisation of PD works, I would rather see the effort devoted to text development than module development. Text development of any hitherto undigitised work such as a Bible translation is a demanding task in itself. One has to be particularly diligent i

Re: [sword-devel] Release Wrapup

2017-02-19 Thread David Haslam
Are we any closer to a release of SWORD v1.8 ? cf. Troy started this thread last October. As someone without any experience of C++ programming, I sometimes wonder how many C++ programmers are still active in CrossWire. It seems far, far fewer than when I first linked up with CrossWire in 2008. c

[sword-devel] Architecture and issues reporting

2017-02-19 Thread David Haslam
Many of the front-end developers get frustrated when users report software or module issues that are not caused by any fault in the front-end program. Here in this mailing list, most of us are very familiar with the back-end / front-end architecture of our Bible software, yet even when relatively