> 1) writing an alternative backend for BibleTime to replace Sword, sounds like a lot of work and that time could hopefully be better spent in other ways? :/
> 2) writing a better wrapper around Sword which would hide its > deficiencies, Both MacSword/Eloquent & PocketSword use wrappers, but that's simply to wrap the C++ code with an Objective-C++ wrapper in order to get Obj-C++ goodness throughout the apps. ;) > 3) a combination of 1) and 2) and allow BibleTime to use multiple > backends, > 4) forking Sword as a separate project, and may be a pain for others who are part of the CrossWire community? And add more confusion for would-be developers? Your own fork that you push the changes back to the official repo might be playing nicer? But that's just my 2 cents... Perhaps along the lines of 5, below? > 5) embedding a forked version of Sword SVN in the source code of > BibleTime which would be partly kept up-to-date with the original project. This is actually something I do with PS, but that's simply cause of not being able to have shared libraries and stuff like that on iOS, so I need to bundle libsword in the app. And so I will have a specific version of SVN in each release of PS. And this simply makes things easier for me. I try to "push" (email diffs to the list) appropriate changes I make back to SVN in order to have as little different between my libsword and the SVN one as possible. >From what others have said, it sounds like you wouldn't be able to do this >with various distros of Linux, so that would probably mean this avenue would >cause additional issues? btw, PS is on BitBucket cause I ditched the SVN that PS was initially placed into once I took over the project. So it's Mercurial, but I'm not religious about my choice... :P https://bitbucket.org/niccarter/pocketsword/overview And I love the additional web tools that you can access via BitBucket/GitHub/those things... And would hopefully make things more discoverable for would-be developers? Most of the other comments that have been made in this email thread don't affect PS, due to the particular nature of iOS apps (for example, I get to release my own "custom" versions of libsword, basically the latest version on SVN with any fixes that are found there, including all the latest av11n headers!), but I can hear the pain that has been expressed and am praying for resolution... :) Thanks, ybic nic... :) _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
