[bt-devel] Backend Proposal

[Martin Gruner]

Hi Greg.

If this is really serious, then I think that the backend at least should
be a separate package which can be built independently.

How do you want to separate rendering and UI? What about JavaScript
interaction and such?

Regards, mg

Am 19.06.11 21:46, schrieb Greg Hellings:
> Martin,
>
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Martin Gruner <mg.pub at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> sounds very interesting. Do you intend to make this new backend a
>> separate library that can be used by BibleTime frontend and other frontends?
> My proposal to Jaak was that BibleTime be separated into three unique
> components each of which could be built relatively separately by CMake
> flags.  Something akin to libbibletimebackend.so, libibletimerender.so
> and the BibleTime executable.  Obviously the BibleTime executable
> would require the other two libraries, but the backend would rely only
> on Qt with SWORD and any other source libraries as options and the
> render would (probably) rely only on Qt and the templating engine Jaak
> has picked out whose name escapes me at the moment.  The renderer
> might also rely on the backend depending on how tightly those two are
> integrated.
>
> The goal is very much twofold - to escape the requirement of
> SWORD-only on the backside and to escape the requirement of
> BibleTime's mouse & keyboard centered heavy GUI on the other end.
> Various people have recently experimented with BibleTime in places
> including touch interfaces down through mobile phones and we'd like to
> make it easier for those people to write a native GUI that links to
> BibleTime's library instead of feeling the need to dig deeply into
> BibleTime to #ifdef their way to a slightly hacked UI.
>
> Whether these other projects will exist as other UIs within the
> BibleTime project or will be separate projects entirely remains to be
> seen, but the hope is anyone who wants till be able to just build the
> components they want and compile and link against the parts that are
> useful to them.
>
> --Greg
>
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