Fw: [bt-devel] your introduction

[Tim Brodie]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Gruner" <mg.pub@gmx.net>
To: "Tim Brodie" <tbrodie@displayworksinc.com>
Subject: Re: [bt-devel] your introduction


> > I have been looking around for this tool (an M$ tool?) but haven't found
> > it in the standard bibletime or sword CVS download.   Is there source
> > to port, or is it a scratch write to duplicate an M$ tool, or what?
Please
> > point me in the write direction.  :-)
>
> Do you have anonymous sword cvs yet? You'll need it.

Yes... I have been using it to keep current with bt and sword.  wonderful
tool.

> The Installmgr is currently available for win and unix, but the 2 versions
> seem to be developed separately. The win version seems far more functional
> (supports ftp download & install) than the unix version. That is why we
> thought about what to do and a rewrite seemed to be the best solution.
>
> sword/apps/X11/InstallMgr [unix version]
> sword/apps/windoze/CBuilder5/InstallMgr [win version]
>
> What I thought of was to integrate it into BT as a dialog. There should be
> the possibility to run in installmgr-only mode, maybe using a commandline
> argument like --install-only.
> You have every freedom to design a new UI and do whatever you want. There
are
> lots of helpful kde classes (ftp, tar, commandline, subprocess ...).
> Main features up to this point would be to install/deinstall and _upgrade_
> (using the version number in the modules' conf files from
> a) ftp (crosswire)
> b) sword cd
> c) packed files
> d) directories
> Should I assign the task on sourceforge to you?

Sure, it sounds interesting... what would be the proposed delivery date?
Are we
looking to include this with the 1.0 release (seems a little aggressive a
time frame), or provide it ASAP afterwards?

[snip]
> Do you have the kde api reference yet? If not, I think you can download it
> from http://developer.kde.org. The qt api reference is part of the qt
> package. Joachim is more familiar with the kde api than me, and has
contacts
> to the developers. If there are technical questions I'd suggest moving the
> discussion to bt-devel so that others can profit from it.

I've installed the kdevelop package, and the only problem I'm having is
configuring the kde api documentation.  The qt stuff is in ok, but it
keeps complaining about not finding a valid kde library.  Since I'm
building bt and sword from scratch, this is unlikely.

I'll poke about again at the kde site to see if I can get that stuff
working.

Thanks.... Tim