[sword-devel] Contributing to sword-tools repo?

[Peter Von Kaehne]

> Von: "Matěj Cepl" <mcepl at cepl.eu>

> On 2016-01-15, 06:51 GMT, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> > My Module makefiles in turn live on the fact that certain scripts are
> > in certain places so that they can pull them in. 
> 
> Define “certain places”, please? Meaning that the directory 
> structure of sword-tools should be preserved, or that the code 
> has to stay in SVN forever?

Both. Unless there is a good reason for it to move, making it acceptable that everything relying upon sword-tools' current location needs to get altered. 

In essence I am currently the only active contributor to sword-tools - but unlike many other parts of the engine + frontends I am not exactly looking for help. Most tools in sword-tools are fairly low tech, task specific scripts without specific coding standards or anything else really. Many are dormant. The stuff I actively develop and use is confmaker.pl , xreffix.pl and some slowly moving scripts around strongs + crossreferences etc. 

av11n.py by Greg is another typical low tech utility script which, when its time comes might need + enhancements, but should not get altered for no good reason as it does what it says on the tin - and that is all it should do right now. 

If you want to join that repo, do so. I am sure Troy will happily allow you to contribute and I will be happy too - as long as you do not step onto my toes/scripts by doing so. If you want to replicate and work on things you need somewhere else, do so.

I am not trying to be dismissive - but simply want to point out that the repo you target for a move is not what you think it is. 

sword/bindings is one place you would want to look at and sword/examples another one. 

I do fully support a general move of the actual library to git, but am happy to wait until Troy decides the time is right for that move. But even then I would continue with sword-tools in svn until there is a good reason for _that_ to move. You have not given one yet.

Peter



> 
> > Wrt the bindings and their documentation - the bindings do not 
> > live in sword-tools but under sword/bindings. Yes, they could 
> > benefit from documentation just as a lot of other places 
> > could. But moving sword- tools somewhere else will not help in 
> > any particular way with that.
> 
> Thanks for the correction, right you are. I was thinking more 
> about sword-tools serving as "examples as documentation" not 
> exactly I would develop bindings documentation in sword-tools 
> repo.
> 
> Matěj
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