Re: [sword-devel] Apple Plans To Boot Orphaned Apps From its App Store

2017-06-25 Thread David Haslam
Hi Tim, Thanks for contacting me. Please understand that in terms of skills and acquired knowledge, I'm not an iOS app developer, nor do I have a Mac platform. cf. I imagine it would be much harder to develop and test iOS apps from a Windows PC. It's great that you've got involved. We know why

Re: [sword-devel] Apple Plans To Boot Orphaned Apps From its App Store

2016-09-13 Thread David Haslam
And later today of course, the release of iOS 10 is expected from Apple Who knows what further spanners that may throw into the works of PocketSword? Best regards, David -- View this message in context:

Re: [sword-devel] Apple Plans To Boot Orphaned Apps From its App Store

2016-09-10 Thread Manfred Bergmann
Hi. Yeah, it’s a challenge. I have developed a few iOS and Android apps for the company I work for. A high amount of maintenance work is required to keep the apps up-to-date. I had worked on the code and integrated ARC and 64bit. It did build and almost all seemed OK. AFAIR the problem was that

Re: [sword-devel] Apple Plans To Boot Orphaned Apps From its App Store

2016-09-10 Thread Manfred Bergmann
Hi Tim. > Am 10.09.2016 um 04:26 schrieb TS : > > I have used many of the modules from the Xiphos project, but I do not believe > that I have used the actual program itself. I didn’t know that it could > create search indexes. I may run a virtual instance of Linux just

Re: [sword-devel] Apple Plans To Boot Orphaned Apps From its App Store

2016-09-09 Thread TS
Hi, Congratulations on your second child :) Thank you also for writing about the submittal and backwards compatibility of PocketSword. So much in iOS alone keeps changing…ARC, 64bit, and etc., I wonder how people keep up? but yes, at least it requires to constantly keep the apps up-to-date.

Re: [sword-devel] Apple Plans To Boot Orphaned Apps From its App Store

2016-09-09 Thread TS
Hi, Thanks for the advice. To follow it, I’ve gone to the tracker page for PocketSword and added another comment with a link to the repo with the version that I had patched. -Tim ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org

Re: [sword-devel] Apple Plans To Boot Orphaned Apps From its App Store

2016-09-09 Thread TS
Thank you for your and everyone else’s replies. I was not expecting it. It was encouraging. :) I’m not a professional at computer programming, so there are some things that I don’t know about, but I’m trying to learn. I’m not a stranger though to computers by any means. Thank you also for

Re: [sword-devel] Apple Plans To Boot Orphaned Apps From its App Store

2016-09-08 Thread Matěj Cepl
On 2016-09-08, 08:43 GMT, David Haslam wrote: > I posted the bug on the tracker. I eventually wrote a fixed > version months ago and emailed Nic about it. I know nothing about iPhone and programming for it, but let me just leave here a general piece of advice ... in this time and age it is

Re: [sword-devel] Apple Plans To Boot Orphaned Apps From its App Store

2016-09-08 Thread David Haslam
And here's my reply: Hi Tim, Thanks for contacting me. Please understand that in terms of skills and acquired knowledge, I'm not an iOS app developer, nor do I have a Mac platform. cf. I imagine it would be much harder to develop and test iOS apps from a Windows PC. It's great that you've got

Re: [sword-devel] Apple Plans To Boot Orphaned Apps From its App Store

2016-09-08 Thread David Haslam
For the record, while we're waiting, here's what he sent: Hi, I’m trying to reach David Haslam. I’m interested in helping out programming for the PocketSword iPhone app. and have actually written in the past to Nic so I know from his reply that he’s quite busy. I’m also very concerned about

Re: [sword-devel] Apple Plans To Boot Orphaned Apps From its App Store

2016-09-08 Thread David Haslam
A few of us received a direct response to this post from Timothy Shen-McCullough. I suspect that with Tim being a new mailing list user, his response awaits moderation. My direct reply to his email also went into the moderation queue. I think this is because when I registered for sword-devel,

Re: [sword-devel] Apple Plans To Boot Orphaned Apps From its App Store

2016-09-08 Thread Manfred Bergmann
Hi. Yeah, I got my second child last year in August. And he kind of makes us all busy (and happy of course). :) The app has to be build against the latest SDK version. Anything else Apple won’t approve. However, it’s still possible to make the app run on iOS 7 for example. The only limit is

[sword-devel] Apple Plans To Boot Orphaned Apps From its App Store

2016-09-03 Thread David Haslam
Are we at risk of losing PocketSword because of the lack of development activity? cf. The call for programmer volunteers seems to have gone unheeded. *Apple Plans To Boot Orphaned Apps From its App Store* See http://fortune.com/2016/09/02/apple-app-store-3/ And it all starts on Sept. 7. Apple