[Pkg-crosswire-devel] peaceful coexistence of libsword6 and libsword7

[Peter von Kaehne]

> 
>     How hard (and how worthwhile) is it likely to be to get things to the
>     point where the different versions of libswordN will coexist?  Am I just
>     making trouble for myself by attempting that?  Several other library
>     packages do seem to manage it... so I'm not totally nuts to be thinking
>     this way... am I?
> 
>     Jonathan

Wrt worthwhile - TBH I see no real benefit.

What do we have for Linux:

Gnomesword/Xiphos (Gnomesword's new name as of today)
BibleTime
diatheke
BpBible
Biblememoriser
Bibledit
glosung
SwordWeb

Of these Swordweb is in no fit state to get packaged,
glosung and Bibledit collaborate with Sword programmes but do not
require them (or do not require any particular version of libsword)

You are left with 4 frontends and Biblememorizer.

Within CrossWire we keep releases

a) linked to the last released libsword
b) update more or less at the same time to noe libsword.

I think it would be long term more useful to keep all these in sync -as
we do so anyway at CrossWire. I can not see any relevant situation where
we would end up with the actual requirement of having two libraries
present.

Bibledesktop and AlKitab rely on Jsword which is a totally separate thing.

Peter