On 8/1/11 4:41 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
Chris,
Von: Chris Little<chris...@crosswire.org>
At the time 1.6.2 was released, there were still no major Sword
apps that had been released with support for av11n to the extent
necessary to support Synodal-v11n modules. We had also only
released a couple of Synodal-v11n modules and only released them to
the experimental repository.
XULsword - while not being a "major" Sword application in the sense
of Xiphos etc for lack of having a worldwide distribution and a lack
of much community involvement by XULSowrd's makers - it has a very
strong following in the CIS area - where the synodal versification is
in use across a whole bunch of tranlations (all IBT issues and
preceding our own release of synodal texts)
And XUL sword supported synodal versification from early on - i.e.
prior to libsword having av11n implemented XULSword was based on a
forked version implementing kjv and synodal.
I think this fork has been dumped and XULSword is now relying on our
own ordinary implementation of av11n.
While using the forked version XULSword also had its modules
encrypted in a unique fashion, but my understanding is that the
modules currently distributed will be just normal standard modules
with Synodan v11n.
So, summary - for the target audience of synodal v11n there existed
for a long time a distribution channel for modules, there are plenty
out there who use these and we are currently making integration of
IBT and XULsword into CrossWire proper difficult.
If xulsword supported our Synodal v11n via Sword 1.6.1, I'm not aware of
that. Its support for a similar v11n prior to the introduction of av11n
support in Sword is irrelevant to the issue, since it was not
representative of the standard Russian Synodal Bible.
I think if we plan to have a formal policy of eternal retention of
obsolete v11ns, it needs to apply to the synodal too.
This is a bit unfortunate and is in parts caused by the near total
lack of communication between XULSword makers and us + also between
IBT and us, but it would be good and right to be welcoming from our
side. There is more to this than simply "doing your own thing".
We added the SynodalP v11n specifically to support IBT's texts, and
that's probably as much as we can do to accommodate these texts.
Nothing we can do can fix issues created by Synodal-v11n texts created
for 1.6.1 by third parties. Nothing we can do can fix incompatibility of
pre-Sword-1.6 xulsword Synodal-oid texts with Sword 1.6.2+ frontends.
--Chris
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