Welcome Scott, I'll try to answer a few of your questions.
> CLucene had the issue > with "lib/CLucene/clucene-config.h" instead of > "include/CLucene/clucene-config.h" mentioned in earlier e-mails, There is a note about this problem in the SWORD INSTALL doc. Search for clucene and you should find it. > also got a compile error when using ICU 3.4.1 (I'm assuming no ICU 3.6 > support yet, since it was only released Sept. 1). I have 3.4 on my box. The latest Windows software was compiled against 3.6. Both seem to work with latest SVN. I'd be interested to hear what problem you had with 3.4.1. > I guess my question > is, how often is compatibility with CLucene and ICU checked, and how > important is it? We usually check the latest available versions before a release. > - Latest BibleTime won't compile with latest Sword due to API breakage > between 1.5.8 and 1.5.9. What is your policy (or rule of thumb) for > deprecating/obsoleting APIs? We usually mark a method deprecated for quite some time before removing it. 2.0 is planned to be a final normalization of the API which will have all deprecated methods removed. > I guess I was surprised that APIs changed > enough between minor revisions that applications wouldn't build. Or did > I make a mistake somewhere? Well, it's not your mistake. Like the Linux kernel, we haven't followed even/odd release/development nomenclature for some time. We usually release 1, or at best 2 revs a year, so 1.5.9 is not a 'minor' revision. > Is someone working on updating BibleTime to > work with Sword 1.5.9? Yeah, I submitted a patch a fews days back to bring Bibletime up to SWORD 1.5.9. It should be posted in the mailing list archives of bt-devel, here: http://www.crosswire.org/pipermail/bt-devel/2006-September/006450.html > - Any ideas on where I could help out? Scott, my suggestion for getting involved would be to frequent irc.freenode.net #sword and also check out the dated, but still sortof current roadmap in our bug database at: http://crosswire.org/bugs/ my personal desires: http://www.crosswire.org/~scribe/todo/ and an old wiki todo at: http://www.crosswire.org/todo Hope this was sortof helpful. Looking forward to sharing together in ministry. -Troy. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page