I think the original rationale for the three experimental compression methods was to find something most suitable for limited resources devices. Given that my current phone has 100+ times RAM, 64 times HD equivalent space and 20 times the processor speed than the first desktop computer on which I run CrossWire software, I am not convinced that even at conception this concern had much merit.
Sent from my phone. Apologies for brevity and typos.On 3 Nov 2016 7:57 am, Jaak Ristioja <j...@ristioja.ee> wrote: > > Thanks you, Peter! Ok, so XzCompress is experimental and the most common > ZipCompress is considered stable. But what about LZSSCompress and > Bzip2Compress? > > Will the experimental compression methods be removed from stable Sword > releases in the future? > > J > > On 03.11.2016 09:45, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > > I can categorically say that there are no released CW modules using any > > compression other than zip. There might be some in our experimental repo. > > But they would not be released so. > > > > I would think the same can be confirmed rapidly with all other official > > repos, Xiphos, IBT and eBible. I am convinced they will say the same. > > > > It is unlikely that anyone else has done so, but who knows? I would not > > worry about it. > > > > Peter > > > > Sent from my phone. Apologies for brevity and typos.On 3 Nov 2016 07:31, > > Jaak Ristioja <j...@ristioja.ee> wrote: > >> > >> I just tried `./configure && make` Sword 1.7.4 and it did compile in > >> xzcomprs.cpp. So I guess the stable releases DO include the experimental > >> code. > >> > >> Usually it helps when experimental features have their own feature > >> branches or similar. This not being a common practice in the Sword > >> project, is probably one cause for other experimental code reaching > >> trunk as well (see the "Infinite loop in SWModule multilemma window > >> search" thread on this mailing list). > >> > >> Anyway, are you saying that removing/disabling this code will not break > >> anything for end-users? Because there are no (known?) modules which have > >> XZ compression? I think there's a risk it has already been used for > >> production. Can you please elaborate? > >> > >> Best regards, > >> J > >> > >> PS: Unrelated to the issue at hand, but this article might be of > >> interest to the Sword project: "Xz format inadequate for long-term > >> archiving" http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html > >> > >> On 03.11.2016 08:51, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > >>> Leaving aside the question of a bug, xzcompress.cpp is experimental code. > >>> It is not included in any releases so far AFAIK and should not be > >>> compiled into releases or used by frontends. > >>> > >>> At least under autotools you need to ask to include it. > >>> > >>> We have no modules created with it and would currently not allow any > >>> either. The only currently used and acceptable compression is zip. > >>> > >>> HTH > >>> > >>> Peter > >>> Sent from my phone. Apologies for brevity and typos.On 3 Nov 2016 02:50, > >>> TS <outofthec...@icloud.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> In xzcomprs.cpp, at line 30, there’s the code: > >>>> > >>>> #include <lzma.h> > >>>> > >>>> Xcode was not happy about this since there is no header named this. It > >>>> seems that in the previous version of PocketSword, the fix was just to > >>>> set Xcode as to not include this file when compiling so that’s what I’m > >>>> doing too. Since the SWORD framework does not include lzma.h as a file, > >>>> this seems like a bug to me, but perhaps there's a reason for it? > >>>> > >>>> I couldn’t find any reference regarding this matter in specific in the > >>>> wiki or mailing list. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -TS > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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 > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
