[sword-devel] iPhone developers?

Ian Wagner iwagn973 at students.bju.edu
Mon Apr 20 12:38:05 MST 2009


Ahh, my bad. I must have been thinking of CVS or bazaar when I wrote  
that. What would be involved in getting access to the crosswire SVN  
server?

Ian
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May the source be with you

On Apr 20, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Gregory Hellings wrote:

> Ian,
>
>
>
> On Apr 20, 2009, at 15:12, Ian Wagner <iwagn973 at students.bju.edu>  
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, I agree. I'm very sorry I haven't had time to setup SVN yet. I  
>> will attempt to make a list of changes that were needed for iPhone  
>> compilation sometime in the near future.
>
> SVN is usually run over http port 80 or https port 443. I think that  
> crosswire runs over 443, but your school almost definitely allows  
> https. It shouldn't be anymore difficult than having someone setup  
> your repo and importing your files.
>
>>
>>
>> I'm sorry if it sounds like I am trying to do this solo. I did give  
>> that impression, but it is mostly due to the fact that I'm terribly  
>> busy right now and haven't had much time to explain all of the  
>> changes and things that I have done, I don't have a version control  
>> system, and in general haven't had much time to work on anything  
>> for this. Also, this is the first time I have had much interest  
>> from other developers because most had not learned the iPhone API  
>> or didn't have the dev program membership. I'm a college student  
>> with a 19 credit load and I just got 2 big papers dumped on me at  
>> the end of the year :) Again, I'm terribly sorry if I sound short  
>> or anything and I really do welcome all of the experience that  
>> everyone else has to offer but was trying to wait till I had a bit  
>> more time (ie. school is out).
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> On Apr 20, 2009, at 2:43 PM, David Trotz wrote:
>>
>>> Ian Wagner wrote:
>>>> I am going to start using SVN over the summer. The reason I do  
>>>> not use it right now is because I am at college and my school  
>>>> blocks almost every non-HTTP port in the book so it would be a  
>>>> pain to work with right now. If crosswire would be able to host  
>>>> it that would be great.
>>> Until its available via subversion I may hold off on helping out.  
>>> Otherwise its going to be far too easy to be out of sync with your  
>>> copy and merging will be a pain. Please consider doing this sooner  
>>> rather than later.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I am packaging SWORD and clucene with it for now. This is  
>>>> because neither of these will compile out of the box for the  
>>>> iPhone so I had to change a few things to get it to work so it is  
>>>> much easier to just distribute my modified version with the  
>>>> package. I still haven't been able to get a few parts of the  
>>>> library to compile at all, but they are non-essential, namely the  
>>>> install and ftp managers. I wrote my own module downloader/ 
>>>> installer using iPhone native API calls. I also decided to do it  
>>>> using the HTTP mirror instead of FTP because of the previously  
>>>> mentioned college situation. Using FTP would make it impossible  
>>>> for thousands of users in similar situations to use the module  
>>>> downloader.
>>> You do plan to get your changes into the official source trees?  
>>> This will make our lives easier, especially as sword continues to  
>>> evolve, we want to take advantage of new features.
>>>
>>> It kinda feels like you want to take this thing solo, which I hope  
>>> is only a feeling I have and not in fact reality, but if it is let  
>>> me know so that I do not step on your toes here. I really would  
>>> love to help out and I am sure there are others as well. A  
>>> concerted effort is much more fruitful than a solo one, although  
>>> there are exceptions.
>>>
>>> --
>>> In Christ,
>>> David Trotz
>>>
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