[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Miscellaneous responses to various threads

[Matthew Talbert]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
> Matthew Talbert wrote:
>
>> However, GnomeSword and BibleTime both provide their own string casing
>> function for this purpose, both using standard unicode definitions to
>> provide casing. So, as I've said, even if SWORD is built with ICU, it
>> will provide no benefit to the end user, and may lead to stability
>> issues.
>
> A libsword installation is not just for the benefit of GS and BT users.
> It may run a webserver (swordweb), it may be used as a module
> development machine, it may be the base for installing BPBible or any
> other frontend  not currently packaged.
>
> Peter

BPBible also implements its own casing function. For other programs
that are not being packaged, I do not think we should sacrifice
stability for the ones that are.

Matthew