[sword-devel] Collaboration efforts for a front end

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Keith Ralston wrote:

> Sounds like a great Java project,  ;-)

And we already have a good start in form of well-organized,
over-engineered ModEdit ;) :)


>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org
> > [mailto:owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org]On Behalf Of Brian Yoon
> > Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 2:24 PM
> > To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> > Subject: [sword-devel] Collaboration efforts for a front end
> >
> >
> > With regards to Sword for Windows, BibleTime, & GnomeSword:
> >
> > Just some questions and thoughts...
> >
> > 1) Has anyone considered using a cross-platform toolkit like wxWindows
> > for this project so that we all can work on the same code, be able to
> > compile on different platforms, and still maintain the look and feel of
> > each respective OS?  wxWindows is great and this would allow all of us
> > to contribute to the same project.  This would eliminate the need to
> > re-invent the wheel for each OS.  Therefore, instead of working on just
> > an OS X port, we could port the existing front-end to wxWindows and then
> > use it on all platforms.
> >
> > 2) Are the goals for each of these different (ie. is one focused on just
> > providing a Bible study tool and another focused on providing a
> > full-featured Bible study and analysis tool like BibleWorks)?
> >
> > 3) If someone wants to see an open source versin of a full-featured
> > Bible study and analysis tool like the commercial software, BibleWorks,
> > developed, what are the major components that are needed to be developed
> > (ie. databases on morphologies, parsing, etc.)?
> >
> > -Brian Yoon
> >
> >
> >
>

  Sincerely Yours,
      Eeli Kaikkonen <eekaikko@paju.oulu.fi> Suomi Finland