[sword-devel] NetSword -- Take 2

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Hey (not sure your name),

    I can't stress enough how much I appreciate your ambition but would 
discourage your efforts in this direction.  We have spent quite a bit of 
time developing a tuned crossplatform framework with bindings for other 
languages.  If you would like to work in the .net world, the officially 
sanctioned route is to use the .net bindings to the C++ library or the 
more general CORBA bindings.

    Our hope is to encourage collaboration.  Other frontend and tool 
projects are underway for the .net platform using the .net swig bindings 
to the C++ library (as Jonathan Morgan mentioned previously).

    We do not standardize on sword module formats.  They change without 
notice.  We supports many subsets of markup formats including OSIS, 
ThML, WEB, and custom extensions on many of these.  The supported tags 
in modules may change at any time.

    We expose an extremely static (many say way too static) API with the 
C++ engine.  It doesn't change very often, and even then, not very 
much.  This is where we try to focus on ease of use for the developers 
of Bible software.  When we come out with new modules and new features, 
usually a frontend developer merely has to update to the latest sword 
engine, recompile, and they provide the benefit of all supported new 
features and modules to their audience.

    The end result of your hard work would be an ever behind, effort to 
merely provide the same functionality as any tool developer could get 
with the .net bindings to the authentic native sword engine.

    If you would like to provide a more .net friendly interface, maybe 
you might consider developing your own .net API design which uses the 
.net bindings to the native engine for doing the sword work.

    Looking forward to working together,

       -Troy A. Griffitts



veritosproject at gmail.com wrote:
> I started to implement NetSword from scratch again, but this time I'm
> using the real Sword library instead of JSword.  Based on the
> limitations of C#, I'm taking quite a few liberties with the code
> (using properties instead of get* and set* functions, removing unused
> stuff, no operator overloading for operator=, etc.), but it's coming
> along.  I've got about 5 classes converted so far, and I hope to get
> about 5-10 a day.  I should have enough to write a small reader in
> about a month.
>
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