Thank you Troy for this very interesting news! In any case, not only because of this news, I support a new release of sword. Especially for the support of the new locales. About localisation, I saw you close this issue <https://git.crosswire.org/main/bishop/issues/3> on git, that probably means you have localized this strings, then where can we translate it?
Le 29/10/2019 à 17:42, Troy A. Griffitts a écrit : > Hello frontend developers, > > As many of you know, we've been in talks since 1998 with the Deutsche > Bibelgesellschaft (German Bible Society) (DBG) to distribute the > Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament. In 1999 they gave us official notice > to stop distributing the text of the NA27. As a consolation, they > suggested we direct our users to their website where they would soon > make the NA27 available for download for a small fee. They have offered > the NA27 in various software and formats from their website, but none we > could easily and fully integrate with our engine. Things have changed > over the past 10 years. CrossWire has designed and written the software > for Aland's research institute (INTF) which produces the text of the > Editio Critica Maior (ECM)-- the research work which the Nestle-Aland > edition derives its text and apparatus. Over the past couple years, we > have pitched the idea to integrate the scholarly research tools at the > institute with the "pocket edition" Nestle-Aland and the result of that > is what you see in Bishop under the "Witness Study", "Variant Study: > Variant Graph, Alignment Table, and Digital ECM (book of Acts only)" > features. They have been happy with these results and have agree to > release a NA28 module for CrossWire tools, but required a few updates > for this to happen. > > 1) They wanted a way to produce unique unlock keys per user which they > would generate from their website-- which also wouldn't require > re-cipher of the module data. > > 2) They needed a way to easily direct users to their website to purchase > the unlock key when a user attempts to install the module. > > > #1 was included as an update to our engine with this commit: > > commit f4ac4caeacd762c90c2b2cef5755bf745e3a6d58 > Author: scribe <scribe@bcd7d363-81e1-0310-97ec-a550e20fc99c> > Date: Sat Dec 29 21:23:25 2018 +0000 > > Added personalization mechanism for cipher keys > > git-svn-id: https://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk@3614 > bcd7d363-81e1-0310-97ec-a550e20fc99c > > #2 was added with the inclusion of the UnlockInfo property as an > accepted entry in the .conf file for a module. > > > All this to say that I have received word that "the code generator has > already been implemented in the online shop. The colleagues are recently > testing the feature." > > I would hope this means immanent availability. > > As this has been an ongoing negotiation and we've received a number of > positive replies with no final action over the years from the DBG, I've > waited until it actually looks like they are really planning to release > this, before getting anyone's hopes up. > > Good news is that I have also pitched this to the DBG as a way for them > to keep 100% of the sale from their module, since we don't want any > royalties, which should allow them to offer their resource to starving > seminary students at a great discount in price. They have taken this to > heart and the last word I have received is that they "are considering a > really modest price of probably as low as 10 €." That's actually pretty > exciting as most other modules for the NA28 which include the apparatus > are priced around $25USD. Plus, a seminary student will have the added > benefit of using their unlock code on any and all of our software > (mobile and desktop), instead of being locked into a single > application. It should be a good promotion for us and I expect the DBG > website will highlight this. > > So, in summary, I hope this will actually happen. I am excited by this > and hope everyone else will be, as well. Frontend developers: for you > to support this, you will need to build against an engine release later > than the commit above. For those who insist on only building against > release branches (completely sympathize with this), our release manager, > Greg Hellings, offered to cherry-pick changes for a new release over the > past holiday season, which was relatively quiet and we never supported > him in his offer, but I am hopeful this means he might be willing to > pull at least this patch into our release branch. Additionally, you > will need to support the new UnlockInfo .conf property in your > frontend. To see how it is used in Bishop, you can try (both iOS and > Android are the same) to install the NA28 module from DBG publisher's > remote module installation repository which has been added to our list > of autodetected repositories. The .conf file is here so you can see the > value of the property-- which will change with appropriate text and > link, once we receive the direct store link to the NA28 SWORD module in > the DBG store. > > http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/dbgraw/mods.d/na28.conf > > The cleanest way is up to you to popup a browser window in your frontend > which will allow the user to navigate the purchase option in the store > and receive the unlock key, and then to return the user back to your > application to enter the unlock key, but you should be able to trust the > UnlockInfo will include general text informing the user they can > purchase an unlock key from the DGB, and that a link will be provided as > part of that text (using our standard RTF + <a href> syntax we've used > in .conf files for ages). > > Finally, if any frontend project manager wishes to test the actual NA28 > module in your frontend, email me privately and I can generate a key for > you. And if you'd like to add to your frontend the ECM integration to > the INTF which you see in Bishop, you will find those webservices easily > by having a look at the VerseStudy code here: > > https://git.crosswire.org/main/bishop/blob/master/www/js/versestudy.js > (NB: methods, witnessStudy, variantGraph, alignmentTable, dECMApp) > > Praise God for this opportunity to make these valuable resources > available to our users at the absolute lowest price. > > In Him, > > Troy > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
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