[sword-devel] local cache of module text

[Daniel Hughes]

You make a compelling case, however I need do to more then just construct a
GUI, I must construction fairly complete c# bindings. And therein lies the
complication, because swig (or maybe me) for all it's promise appears to
not be completely up to the task.

Sincerely,
Daniel


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:

>
> > Von: Daniel Hughes <trampster at gmail.com>
> > Am I allowed to pull the text out of the sword module once it is
> installed
> > (using the sword libs) and put it in my local sqlite database.
>
> Not a lawyer, so my advice might be of limited value. Many of our modules
> are public domain and essentially you can do as you like. Many are not and
> some are quite restrictively licensed. Most of the restrictions are around
> (re)distribution, so that does not apply here. Which leaves me with "I do
> not know" and "you probably need to ask a lawyer" and "his advice might
> vary from module to module and license to license". Or not and everything
> is easy as it is just on the user's computer.
>
> On the more technical side, you would loose an awful lot. Our better
> modules have paragraphing, sectioning, titles, footnotes, Strongs,
> morphology etc included and you would either loose that or reinvent that.
>
> From our engine you would get readily formatted HTML (or whatever else you
> ask it) after application of a variety of arbitrary (or user chosen)
> filters which add or remove notes, add or remove strongs, add or remove
> Greek accents, Hebrew vowels and other stuff, add or remove xrefs,
> transliterate, add ruby notation (for Japanese modules) etc etc. And etc.
>
> You would get for free all the logic to deal with different canons and
> versification systems. You would get for free any future improvements to
> our engine. You get indexed search with quite interesting ways of looking
> at the text built in.
>
> For all these things you would in essence only need to construct a GUI and
> interface, while in your current sqlite backend you either do not have them
> or you need to re-invent them.
>
> Yours
>
> Peter
>
>
>
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