[bt-devel] Thoughts about the Win port and misc things

[Fred Saalbach]

I currently have SuSE 6.3 and Mandrake 7.1 installed.  Both have significant
configuration issues on my hardware (SuSE keeps loosing the ability to print, and
Mandrake refuses to properly configure my sound and scsi cards) and neither supports
bibletime 0.3 as they use the previous versions of KDE and Qt.

I expect to get a copy of mandrake 7.2 shortly (perhaps next month) and will then see
how things work.

I think that it is a bit premature to try to port to windows.  I think that it would be
better to focus on Linux / Unix first and get the package ready for general use (that
is to the point where it is out of beta testing).  Then if there appears to be a need
to port it to windows the port can be made to a fully functioning program.  This should
be easier than porting a program that still has some bugs being worked out.



Joachim Ansorg wrote:

> Hi!
>
> >From time to time I think the Windows port is not necessary any more.
> Martin, you said Troys frontend is good. There are also so many other good
> programs under Windows, why should we port?
>
> Now I think people who want to use BibleTime should install Linux.
> I know installation is difficult, I think if we do not port we should make a
> easy to install and easy to use software package. I have to provide binary
> packages etc.
>
> At the moment I don't know what to do.
> We have two solutions:
>         -Provide packages for Win and Linux
>         -Provide an easy to install package for Linux, BSD and Unix systems. Binares
> for almost all systems
>
> I think a stable, fast, easy to use Bible study tool for Linux and Unix
> systems is better than a half-weight cross-plattform solution.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Other things:
> At the moment I think about to get some domains (webspace, cgi, PHP3 + PHP4
> ...). I think this is good because we can then coordinate the work better
> (emails for developers, we can do administration, we have logs, FTP access).
> If I do it it would be also possible to have some .net, .com and .org
> domains. Ideas?
>
> I do also think about the several distirbutions of Linux. I think it's good
> to buy some cheap versions of them so we can provide binary packages of
> BibleTime for the different distributions.
> Which plattforms are important in your opinion:
>         [ ]     RedHat 7.0
>         [ ]     RedHat 6.2
>         [ ]     SuSE 7.0
>         [ ]     SuSE 6.4
>         [ ]     Caldera 2.4
>         [ ]     Caldera 2.3
>         [ ]     FreeBSD 4.1
>         [ ]     FreeBSD 4.0
>         [ ]     Mandrake 7.2
>         [ ]     Mandrake 7.1
>         [ ]     Debian 2.2
>         [ ]     Debian 2.0
>         [ ]     Cortel Linux 1.2
>         [ ]     others (please give their names)
>
> Please post your opinion, probably it's the opinion which shows me what to do
> (port, binaries etc.).
>
> --Joachim