Salam 3alaikum, First off, I'd like to thank the two gentlemen who stepped up to the responsibility of maintaining this important project. The project has been stagnant for a while, I had some input/questions a while back but they went unanswered, hopefully this will be changing soon.
I would very much like to offer my help as newbie junior member, and I also have some input on what I've done with the project so far. To offer help with the project I need to introduce myself to the new maintainers so that they could assign tasks that better match my skill set. I'm a software developer based in Orange County, California, my day job is doing Java/C# interop (ORB/IIOP) for enterprise software, at previous jobs I used to do Java/C development for linux with some device driver development thrown in. I have good command of C/C++/Java/C#/Assembler and many scripting languages. As for my input, in no specific order, here goes: WIN32 I do have a fully functioning native Win32 build of the library (Mingw), I did some small changes to make the source more friendly e.g. ifdefs for something like LIBQURAN_SCOPE to mean extern or extern __declspec(dllimport) I did some fixes for a couple memory off by one errors that don't sow under linux Added some missing support functions for windows like scandir Will add function to get config file from default user profile instead of hardcoding "C:\windows" Bottom line, the source needs to groomed to make it more friendly in different build environments. BINDINGS I do have a fully functioning C# wrapper library save for the audio, the sound callback from native to managed works fine but I think the data gets corrupted (endianess?), but this should be no problem under mono, as linux is more consistent with utf8, under windows I have to manually get bytes IntPtr, as windows type marshaling from native to managed is anything but consistent (some strings arrive fine, others don't) Java bindings is in the way, I just didn't have much time lately Bottom line, I think we should favor bindings to help keep one consistent lib/interface, the source is simple (GoodThing TM) and clean enough to be easly ported anywhere a C compiler is available (save for the XML part which Mohammad is addressing, XML->Binary compiler is great idea btw) PERSONAL OPINIONS I agree with Mohammad suggestions for the future as in a previous discussion, I think a plugin architecture is the way to go, also more emphasis on mobile devices as there should be some demand here, also the windows environment is neglected and needs some attention, I had some friends ask for a copy for windows, which I couldn't provide, that's why I created the C# bindings (UI in native win32 is a pain and MFC sucks) I also think we should stick with C, as the extra fire power (and complexity) of C++ is not needed for a project this size, plus C being a smaller/simpler language with standard that you can get 20 people to agree on, makes it easier to port from platform to another (in my experience you can't trust the C++ compilers too much between platforms) Thanks again Ahmed Ghoneim On 7/21/07, A.Haq Abbad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Message: 4 > > Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:03:32 +0300 > > From: "Mohammad DAMT" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Quran project maintainer > > To: "Development Discussions" <[email protected]> > > Message-ID: > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > > Pada hari Sabtu, tanggal 21/07/2007 pukul 01:57 -0700, Nadim Shaikli > menulis: > > > > Wonderful !! > > > > > Thanks Nadim, > > > > > > > Thank you all for your interest; now its time to forge ahead with > > > results ! > > > > > I've put something in my mind in the wiki page: > > > > > http://wiki.arabeyes.org/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A2%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85/libquran-ng > > > > PS. I don't know to change from RTL to LTR in the wiki. > > > > Please have some comments. > > Thank you > > > > > Salam Mohammed, > I've read the wiki, sounds like a good start, but I think alot needs to be > added :D. > i.e. abit more detailed. I dont expect you to do this alone, get some help > from others! > As for speex, last I checked, it had very poor quality! aint ogg alone good > enough? > > Plugin sounds good, yet I have no idea how it will be like. > It's a nice idea to leave space for tafsir feature, to be added whenever. > and the xml, I dont know what you mean by binary, but agreeing on a binary > format, from all member should produce a good output/structured file. > Not sure if you are starting from scratch or carry on with the current one! > if from scratch, consider C++, as it brings many advantages :D in my opinion > of course. > > if you want more comment, just ask :D, as I have a lot to say, and I hope it > makes sense :) > > Wassalam 3alaikum. > > _______________________________________________ > Developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer > _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
