[sword-devel] Next Release (was: Taming Wild Threads)

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Good suggestion Karl.  Others sound like they would also like this.  May 
I ask first for some feedback regarding current state of TRUNK?  I 
believe we have a fairly optimized impl of the old functionality running 
in the new paradigm of dyn versification.  We might be able to clean it 
up by next week.  I currently understand there are two issues:

1) non-backward-compat change of removing VerseKey::books hardcoded 
array.  We've talked about adding a SWORDVERSION define, but I just had 
a 'doh' moment and realized we have: pkg-config --modversion sword

2) stability: we are missing bounds checks for calls into the new 
VerseMgr, resulting in crashes if you, for example, ask for the max 
chapter of a book which doesn't exist.  I think this is the main cause 
for crashes, but it would be nice to get some feedback from the frontend 
developers of how stable the current code base is.  After a few days of 
hunting bugs and valgrinding, we can make a good decision if we should 
release without dyn versification.

I would like to have a release soon, as well.  We have committed to a 6 
month release cycle and are about 1 month late, I believe.

	-Troy.




Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
> "Troy A. Griffitts" <scribe at crosswire.org> writes:
>> So, this is a quick fix and will be in the next rev.  If you need it
>> before the next rev, you are very welcome to extend the filter and
>> catch the <reference> tag to handle it correctly.
> 
> Just my opinion: I would prefer to see a new, very-near-term release of
> the Sword lib (meaning roughly "next week or the week after"),
> containing just this fix, the performance fix for compressed modules,
> and the couple other minor things that have been reported, independent
> of the greater genbook VerseKey work.
> 
> A centralized release would prevent the necessity of several different,
> very temporary re-implementations.
> 
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