[sword-devel] iPhone developers?

[Gregory Hellings]

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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