[sword-devel] Announcing Sword++

[Mark Trompell]

Am 28. September 2016 16:49:58 MESZ, schrieb Konstantin Maslyuk <kostyamaslyuk at gmail.com>:
>Thank you, Jaak, for your good starting. I still hope that your
>knowledge in C++ development and Troy's experience in Sword development
>would unite in development of next major libsword iteration (reword
>libsword2). I think you both have many great ideas for that. 

That would probably a good idea. Getting some Input of what Frontend developers need. But keep the fileformat.
May be some parts could be solved better if api compatibility is not an issue.

>I also expect from libsword2 more convenient api. Since we managed to
>work with existing, it leave many questions and unobvious things (SWMgr
>that is actually iterator, Upper/Lower bound that do not say where is
>module beginning for new ones). A lot of code in Sword is hard to
>maintain, only few people knows how it actually works. It is not look
>like good C++ code. And it will never evolve if we will focus on elder
>devices.
>
>So I suggest to not extinguish any kind of energy here but to support.
>It is so little here.
>
>As for me, i like elder devices, and at this moment they are in my
>priority.
>
>
>Blessings.
>
>-----Исходное сообщение-----
>От: "Jaak Ristioja" <jaak at ristioja.ee>
>Отправлено: ‎25.‎09.‎2016 21:56
>Кому: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum"
><sword-devel at crosswire.org>
>Тема: [sword-devel] Announcing Sword++
>
>Hello!
>
>Sometime in May this year my efforts to improve the Sword library as
>the
>backend for BibleTime led me to create branch or fork of the Sword
>codebase, which I eventually called Sword++. The main goals for this
>were to (with respect to BibleTime development) improve the API, build
>system and overall code quality, modernize, and to try to fix any bugs
>I
>find when refactoring and reviewing the code. With experience as a C++
>backend engineer and being no Sword expert, my refactoring effort also
>serves the purpose of educating myself about Sword and its internals.
>While I'm just starting out and have barely touched the amount of work
>that needs to be done, I've already accumulated over 200 new commits to
>the Sword++ repository so far. So this seems to be a more-or-less
>reasonable time to publicly announce my publicly before the situation
>gets too awkward.
>
>Before I proceed, I want to emphasize that none of this is meant to
>split or even stir up anything negative in the community. However,
>Sword++ is an initiative to stop and reverse the current bit-rot; it is
>more of a rescue effort and not a rebel event. Due to the sheer amount
>of work that needs to and can be done to reach these goals, it is
>evidently impractical for me to push and wait for every such change to
>work its way through the issue tracker and/or sword-devel and reach SVN
>trunk. To work around this costly threshold for contributing to the
>Sword library, Sword++ is now here.
>
>Sword++ is not officially related to CrossWire. The code currently
>lives
>at https://github.com/swordxx/swordxx and as the initiator I'm
>currently
>idling alone on the #sword++ channel on FreeNode IRC. Feel free to
>contribute, file bug reports, pull requests etc. Also feel free to
>cherry-pick or merge any fixes back to Sword. I don't think I will (or
>have time to) flood sword-devel with emails about every bug (or
>technical, design or architectural issue) I find. I will try to notify
>about most severe security issues. Follow the git log if you're
>interested.
>
>The code is in sync with enhancements in the Sword SVN trunk and for
>now
>I'll try to keep it that way, although I've changed the layout of
>source
>files etc extensively which makes merging harder. I'm currently
>targeting standard C++14, POSIX and Linux, with everything else having
>lower priority due to Sword++ currently having only one active
>developer. I've also dropped all the language bindings (which I don't
>intend on maintaining together with the Sword++ master branch), a bunch
>of legacy and unused code, tools and utilities etc. MSVC project files
>and autotools were dropped from the build system, which is now only
>based on CMake. Ftplib support was also dropped, cURL, CLucene 2,
>bzip2,
>xz and zlib are now unconditionally required by Sword++. There are also
>some API changes so switching from Sword to Sword++ requires some
>effort. See the git log for details and more.
>
>There is a lot of uncertainty because this is just the beginning of the
>process. Currently Sword++ must be considered unstable. I haven't
>tested
>it much at runtime. I'm mostly doing code review, modernizing, fixing
>bugs and compiler warnings and static analysis warnings,
>despaghettification and deduplication of code, improving the API etc
>etc
>etc. Sword++ will try to stay compatible with existing Sword modules,
>but will probably propose amendments to the file formats and download
>protocols (e.g. to get rid of parsing the potentially fragile HTML of
>directory listings generated by the Apache HTTP server).
>
>I hold in high respect both CrossWire and all who made the Sword
>library
>possible and am grateful for ALL of you who have enabled or contributed
>to Sword, and your work. I hope the Sword++ initiative will benefit our
>developer community, the end-users and so on.
>
>Glory be to God!
>
>Thank you and many blessings,
>Jaak Ristioja
>
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