On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Troy A. Griffitts 
> <scr...@crosswire.org>wrote:
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>> In anticipation of a new release, I have a large checkin I'm about to
>> commit which will break everything for everyone compiling with -Werror.
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>> We've been normalizing method names toward a clean API interface at 2.0.
>>  SWORD started 20+ years ago when there was not standard naming
>> conventions.  In fact, originally we tried to keep variable names less than
>> 8 characters, as, at the time, some compilers stopped disambiguating after
>> this.  Besides these, there are a number of conventions we used back then
>> for which standards have now become the norm: camelCase conventions,
>> standard set/getProperty naming, and the like.  We've been slowly moving
>> toward these changes and have been deprecating old names for a few years
>> now.  What I'm about to introduces standard names for all methods within
>> the SWKey and SWModule classes and deprecates the non standard names.
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>> A few not obvious changes:
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>> Headings() has been renamed to setIntros(bool) and bool isIntros()
>> Headings() -- used to turn on chapter, book, testament, and module
>> introductions, has frequently been a point of confusion with the global
>> option "Headings" -- used to turn on and off section headings in the text.
>>  This new property name will hopefully remove that confusion.
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>> Error() has become popError(), as the functionality has always been to
>> return and clear any error code for the object.
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>> The bindings are probably in a state of disarray now.  I've updated the
>> omniorb bindings.  I'd appreciated any help with other stuff.
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Additionally, BibleTime's sword-svn-compat branch has been updated to build
cleanly against this, (excluding the unused variables message I mentioned
in the other thread).

--Greg
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