[sword-devel] I implore you...

[Greg Hellings]

On Jun 9, 2013 4:28 PM, "Troy A. Griffitts" <scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:
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> :)
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> Is everyone happy with SVN HEAD?
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> I'm happy with the vspace cleanup.  Does it meet everyone else's need?
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> Do all the bindings build ok?  It sounded like Peter still had some
troubles.
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I can work with him to find the difference between his environment and mine
and resolve that. The bindings build fine in Fedora 18 just two hours ago,
so it seems to be an Ubuntu (I believe Peter is an Ubuntu user?) thing. I
have not heard other failure reports but the Swig bindings are not
regularly built by most people.

If we can have a regular release maintenance branch which really is limited
to fixes only and is short release cycles, I would rather work this out
there and make the fix part of 1.7.1.

> Greg, do I still need to apply a patch from you?
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I believe my patch for building on Linux in the absence of cURL is still
unapplied. That is the only "ready to go" patch I can think of from me that
is outstanding.

--Greg

> I've deployed HEAD for our SWORDWeb installation at:
http://crosswire.org/study
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> I've browsed through some various locations: Gen, Matt.5+7, Ps., etc.
which might cause trouble.  Most all seemed to display fairly well.
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> Troy
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> On 06/09/2013 05:09 PM, Greg Hellings wrote:
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>> ...please just release 1.7.0 now. 15 months ago Troy promised it would
be released the following month. Some things have happened that made it a
bit difficult, but 15 MORE months beyond the already-too-long time is
ridiculous. Please just release it as it is and then make regular bug-fix
releases to address each of these outstanding bugs.
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>> Please, stop with the "one more bug" or "one more thing" or "next
week/month, I  promise". Just release it. Xiphos is unable to make a new
release because it has been repeatedly promised that "very soon now" a new
Sword would be released, so the application has committed to the current
SVN of Sword. BibleTime has support for several of the existing Sword
features in a development branch but cannot make a release with that
support because of a commitment to only supporting released Sword versions.
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>> Troy, you've said one reason you procrastinate releases is because you
don't like going through the release process. I've offered twice now - with
no response - to manage a stable branch of the library and make regular
bug-fix releases from that while main trunk development continues onwards.
With git, I already maintain such functionality on the github mirror of
CrossWire - doing it for a stable branch would not be more difficult. Maybe
someone else would also be willing if you don't want me to do that.
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>> But please, can we just have a release? 'Twould be nice.
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>> --Greg
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