[sword-devel] Sword 1.7.3

[Daniel Hughes]

I'm hoping my c# bindings patch will make it into 1.7.3

It uses the flatapi, Troy made a bunch of changes to the flatapi to
fix issues I encountered while creating the c# bindings.

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
> We're hoping to have an impending Sword 1.7.3 release soon. As such, I have
> attempted to merge only bug fixes and such over from the SVN trunk to the
> sword-1-7-x branch. A highlight of some of the improvements since 1.7.2:
>
> JIRA fixes for
> MODTOOLS-1
> MODTOOLS-64
> API-159
> API-158
> API-164
> Study filter now defaults to off like other filters
> Additional code examples
> Vastly improved and updated flatapi/C bindings
> Better standards compliance
> Better error detection and reporting
> Multiple small render improvements
> Changes to how preverse content is rendered by the engine
> Many fixes to utilities
>
> Several of these (especially study filters, error reporting, and preverse
> content) will affect front-ends. Please, check out sword-1-7-x and check.
> Make sure it builds for you, using all your favorite options and settings.
> Also, build your favorite front end(s) against it and see how they fare.
> Some of these changes are old (January) some are brand new (last night) so
> front ends might not all be completely savvy.
>
> As always, please report bugs. It is known, at the least, that the preverse
> content rendering is not completely fixed yet so 1.7.3 won't release until
> that is fixed.
>
> Also, if you're geeky enough, please check I didn't break API or ABI
> compatibility with this. It is our intention for 1.7.3 to be a drop-in
> replacement for 1.7.2 including only bug fixes, so if I've accidentally
> merged a breaking change, we'll need to identify that and revert it
> properly.
>
> Thanks for following along, and please! Test and report failures/successes.
>
> --Greg
>
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