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Re: Quran project maintainer (Mohammad DAMT)

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 <haqman at gmail dot com> wrote:


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> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:03:32 +0300
> From: "Mohammad DAMT" < mdamt at gnome dot org>
> Subject: Re: Quran project maintainer
> To: "Development Discussions" <developer at arabeyes dot org>
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> 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.

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