[sword-devel] Icon bar and redirects. (new website)

[Jonathan Morgan]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:10 PM, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 12, 2008, at 12:23 AM, Jonathan Morgan wrote:
>
>> * Removed mention of cross platform applications, since it seems to me
>> utterly irrelevant when the user is choosing a platform to get
>> software for anyway.
>
> To me it is important.
>
> I have a Mac at home. Linux and Windows at work. I want the same
> program on all platforms.
>
> Also, I visit people who have Windows and having everything on a USB
> stick and running it from there on any one of the 3 platforms is
> invaluable.
>
> I'm looking forward to the day when BibleTime and others can do that.

That might happen with Java (so long as Java is on all of the target
machines), but I can't see it happening with anything using Sword,
since it would rely on platform specific binaries (you could have
binaries for all three platforms on the USB key, but it's not quite
the same).

Jon