[sword-devel] sword.js

[Ryan Hiebert]

Have you looked at untar.js?

https://code.google.com/p/bitjs/source/browse/untar.js?r=0eca1f06d91e1477e3708531939c8071fc877855

On a tangentially-related note, I've done some work on a python sword
zmodule reader. It's stalled a bit now, because I've seen
recommendations to use the C++ libraries, and just bindings to other
languages. I understand the desire, but I think that Javascript is a
good example of why that's not acceptable in all cases. For some
distribution methods, it may be necessary to have everything
implemented in a particular scripting language, such as for a
Client-side Javascript bible reader.

I think that encouraging using the C++ library is good, but it's even
more important to make sure that the file formats are well documented,
to allow alternate implementations if they are necessary.

Ryan

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Stephan <info at tetzels.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've started to work on a pure Javascript module to read the bible modules
> from CrossWire in a browser environment (sources:
> https://github.com/zefanja/swordjs , Demo: http://zefanjas.de/swordjs/ ->
> You have to install a module first from here
> http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/packages/rawzip/). Don't expect to
> much, the basic things are working, but there is still a lot of work to be
> done...
>
> I want to provide an API to get a list of all modules in a repository. I
> think libsword takes the mods.d.tar.gz file in every repo and unpack it on
> the device to get this list.
>
> Is it possible to add the same file as a zip compressed one in every
> repository, because unzipping in the browser is working, but I didn't find a
> (working) module to untar a file.
>
> That would be great.
>
> Blessings,
> Stephan
>
>
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