Kevin Mark wrote: > you may notice that Debian has many programs to catalog thing. Some for > cd/dvd's, some for books, etc. When you make an ITP you will need to > make an argument as to why this packages should be added. Debian > developers will want to know what differentiates your package from other > similar ones in Debian already. This is not to say that you will be > unable to add your package to debian, but on rare occasions it has been > decided that some packages would not benefit being added. Why did I start the project? I talked to a friend at the university and we agreed that we've got too many books to keep them all in mind. So we wanted to have a program to manage them. I searched the internet, especially freshmeat and sourceforge for an adequate project fitting to our needs. I didn't search for a long time, but in fact, I didn't find that, what I wanted. I decided to write this program on my own. I wanted to create an easy to use program which doesn't annoy users with the creation of databases and long setup procedures.
> ps. If you want some beta tester for your work, you should include a URL > so that folks like me can try your work, assuming you feel it is in a > shape to be tested. There's a website where I place the sourcecode and also the latest binary version (including the ChangeLog and so on). You can get it here: http://drebesium.ath.cx/~hackbert/wxbiblio/dist/ There are also some screenshots: http://drebesium.ath.cx/~hackbert/wxbiblio/screenshots/ It might be, that one doesn't get the program to compile and work correctly. This is due to some problems I have with autoconf and automake. I hope I can fix this in the next time. By the way, the program is called wxbiblio as you might have recognized when having a look on the URL. It is entirely written in C and C++ and uses wxWidgets for the GUI. Xerces-c is also needed, because I use it to read data from XML-files. It would be cool, if somebody wanted to test it. Feel free to download, distribute and modify it. You may also write me emails. Andi P.S.: I'm currently reading all the stuff about how to publish packages in the debian directories. That's kind of complicated and seems to be a long procedure. Nevertheless, I think it's required to keep the good quality of debian packages. On the other hand, it discourages me a bit to become a maintainer. Well, I'll go on reading and decide later :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
