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

[Geoffrey W Hasstings]

Is there a version of BIBLE TIME for windows available?

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:02:32 +0200 Eeli Kaikkonen
<eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi> writes:
> 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 has served well for years but have now been superseded by more 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.
> 
> But if you allow me to go back to BibleTime - if there's anyone  
> interested in helping us, you are welcome. At the moment we have 
> less  
> manpower than Xiphos have had for some time, but on the other hand 
> the  
> Windows port workload is not comparable. Anyways, we can use graphic 
>  
> designers, C++/Qt coders, Windows specialists, translators etc.  
> Thorough testing is more important than ever, as the Xiphos 
> developers  
> already have noticed. We want to find bugs before publishing, so  
> please try BibleTime.
> 
> --Eeli Kaikkonen
> 
> 
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