[bt-devel] beta1 is released now

[Joachim Ansorg]

Ok!

You are the first second who noticed it (I was the first).
I thought it was released because SWORD 1.51 was on the CD (Look in 
ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/iso/latest/). But there's no package.

I uploaded s snapshot of current CVS (It's 1.51) to www.bibletime.de.
Have a look at the page. It's announced.

--Joachim

Am Fre, 30 Jun 2000 schrieben Sie:
> Aaaggghhh! I'm in a rush!  Where can I get sword 1.5.1???
>
> Chris Marsh
>
> Analyst Programmer
> Hansen Corporation
> Ph:	(03) 9843 8438
> Fax:	(03) 9843 8590
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Hoyt [mailto:jeff@jhoyt.faithweb.com]
> Sent: Friday, 30 June 2000 6:52
> To: bt-devel@crosswire.org
> Subject: Re: [bt-devel] beta1 is released now
>
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > good work. Hopefully we will have lots of user feedback.
> > Joachim, Is dnd ok now? If so, what should I start to work on now?
>
> Your work on d'n'd is great!  Thanks!!!!!
>
> > Somebody on the sword list said that logos is much better than sword.
> > Can anyone report about it and even provide some screenshots?
> > We should collect lots of different screenshots of different programs on
> > a secret place on bibletime.de and compare and learn from others.
> > Joachim, you said you have some?
> >
> > If bibletime shall be the _best_ available tool (which is a very high
>
> aim),
>
> > it requires a LOT of work and especially early design and layout and
> > interface discussion and development. It is easier to change something
> > now than later.
>
> BT's user interface is the best I've ever used in a Bible program.
>
> > Do y'all agree?
> > (If we would continue development just the way that I personally am
> > developing, bt would move towards a dead end.)
>
> Probably the best Bible software in the universe is Hermenutica from Bible
> Works.  To go along with the advanced features, it also costs upward of
> $500!
>  It's strength is the Greek and Hebrew parsing features.  It has
> "morphological" functions relating to this, which I don't completely
> understand.
>
> For this stage in development, Bibletime/Sword is very good, far more
> useable
> than the shareware/freeware Bible study programs for Win such as Online
> Bible
> and SwordSearcher.  There are a couple more fairly complex features I would
> like to see implemented, and there is also the issue of search speed.
> Compared even to OLB BT/Sword is a turtle.  This is really a matter of
> convenience, but search speed has become somewhat of a standard benchmark
> by
>
> which Bible software is judged.
>
> Though this is "anathema" to some Linux people, releasing a Windows port of
> Bibletime is the best way to attract new users and developers.  Honestly,
> the
> Sword interface for Win32 that exists now is rather bad.  I realize it is a
> hack just to get it onto the Win32 platform, but if it would be possible,
> BT
>
> for Windows would be great.
>
> BTW, I'm including a text-only handbook.  It is not thorough, but covers
> most
> of the basics and some of the advanced features.  It still needs to be
> converted to DocBook format.  Anybody know how????
>
> God bless,
> Jeff