[sword-devel] iPhone developers?

Ian Wagner iwagn973 at students.bju.edu
Mon Apr 20 13:24:07 MST 2009


Ok, sounds good. I will post updated source this evening and e-mail  
you as soon as it is up. Thank you for being understanding. I am  
currently going for my B.S. in CS (finishing the sophomore year right  
now)! Unfortunately I will not be able to chat on #sword until after I  
am done with school (May 9th) because of the said network access  
restrictions on-campus :(

Ian
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On Apr 20, 2009, at 3:45 PM, David Trotz wrote:

> Ian,
> Glad to hear you are open to help. I am eager to do so. :-) I can  
> handle the
> details of getting the svn up for you and I can look into the  
> changes you
> made and see if I can get them rolled into the official sword repo  
> as well
> as the clucene repo. This will give me a chance to get familiar with  
> your
> code base. Just let me know, and if so make sure I have access to your
> absolute the latest source tree.
>
> I understand the pressures of being a student, I recently graduated  
> with a
> B.S. In C.S. and have not forgotten how life and free time tends to  
> ebb and
> flow around midterms and finals. I myself am married with 5 kids and  
> work
> full time so my spare time to work on Sword related items comes and  
> goes as
> well.
>
> As far as development is concerned, I imagine you have some idea of  
> how you
> want the flow of the UI and features to be implemented and I do not  
> want to
> step on your toes there, so at some point after I get these items  
> taken care
> of (assuming you want me to do those things) we should try to meet  
> up a few
> times in #sword and chat about your vision for the software.
>
> In Christ,
> David Trotz
>
>
>
> On 4/20/09 12:12 PM, "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.
>>
>> 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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