[sword-devel] PocketSword

[David Haslam]

It would be nice if the sender of the previous reply might introduce himself/herself to the team.

Has anyone used the GitHub facility to import the PocketSword repository from Atlassian BitBucket?

Nic's source code is at https://bitbucket.org/niccarter/pocketsword

Best regards,

David

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On Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 at 4:44 PM, Maxwell Murunga <maxmmur at gmail.com> wrote:

> As a long-time PocketSword user, I am willing to contribute to this effort.
>
> I am fairly familiar with the PocketSword source code, having built it several times about 5 years ago. Even at the time, it was already in the realm of "legacy"; I could tell that it desperately needed to be ported over to Swift.
>
> Back then, Swift was not directly interoperable with C++. You had to use Objective-C bridging headers. However, that changed last year or so and now Swift is directly interoperable with C++.
>
> The best way forward, in my opinion, seems to be porting PocketSword from Objective C++ to Swift. Tools like Github Copilot or Swiftify could make this a breeze.
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM Kahunapule Michael Johnson <kahunapule at ebible.org> wrote:
>
>> I discussed this with a volunteer developer, today. We agreed that probably the best way forward was a rewrite/replacement. If anyone wants to contribute to that effort, please let me know.
>>
>> On 1/13/25 00:26, David Haslam wrote:
>>> FYI: I've just noted the discovery in the developers' wiki
>>>
>>> https://wiki.crosswire.org/Frontends:PocketSword
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> David
>>>
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>>> On Sunday, January 12th, 2025 at 10:12 PM, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> Today I discovered that PocketSword is no longer downloadable from the App Store!
>>>>
>>>> NB. I've already alerted Michael Johnson via Messenger.
>>>>
>>>> cf. The original developer (Nic Carter) stopped developing the software after he moved to teach in New Zealand several years ago.
>>>>
>>>> Presumably, Apple has ruled that those apps that were designed only for iOS 10 or earlier should be removed from the store.
>>>>
>>>> cf. Back in late 2020, I ask them "Is there a high risk that next month Apple may disqualify PocketSword from the App Store if it’s not updated to their latest data privacy standards?"
>>>>
>>>> Michael informed us in May 2022 that his friend Craig Ahlman had volunteered to work on PocketSword. Even so, there's been no news of any progress since then.
>>>>
>>>> I would be very sad if this excellent front-end app for iPhone and iPad devices could not be brought back to see the light of day.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
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