[sword-devel] Getting rid of BibleCS (was Re: [bt-devel] Eureka!!)

[Jonathan Morgan]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Eeli Kaikkonen
<eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:
> Quoting Jonathan Morgan <jonmmorgan at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Troy A. Griffitts
>> <scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Congratulations guys!!! This is great news!  Our Windows users now have
>>> choices 4+ choices!   We're really going to have to redo our CD autorun
>>> splash to present these choices to our users.
>>
>> This is now the time to consider again removing the unsupported "Sword
>> for Windows", which is condemned by many and misleads many about the
>> potential of the Sword platform because it appears to be the official
>> (and thus the "best") one to casual onlookers.
>>
>
> "Removing" is not a good idea, but it's another thing to write honest
> guidance in www pages etc. We can call it a "legacy" application which has
> served well for years but have now been superseded by more modern
> interfaces. It may still be usable for many users: it's small, works
> reliably etc.

If it is unsupported, which it is as far as I can tell, removal is not
such a bad option, IMHO.  Certainly the website presents it as a
former flagship application, but it is first and has an important
sounding name.  Without doubt it should be deprecated and stated
clearly as being utterly unsupported and moved down the list at least
as far as LCDBible.

Jon