On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Roland Krause wrote:
> Do you mind me picking up this from your sources and asking you for
> help once in a while ?
No problem.
> Is gbib-0.0.2 the latest version ?
well, I had some adjustement for gnome versions. As you maybe know, the
gtk+ and gnome APIs have changed a bit. But nothing really important.
> I do have no idea what scheme is and how it works. This is what keeps
> me from getting the code to work right now as I dont even have it
> (guile/scheme) installed on my computer.
Hmm.. the scheme part is just to read the definition files of bibtex
styles. It is quite simple and, as the power of scheme is not really used,
perhaps it would be better to write a simple parser to those files.
> I do have a parser from a different project though that I've written
> in C and that thing needs a face lift anyway. So I thought I'll try and
> parse the bibfiles on my own. Dont know how smart that is and I'd like
> to hear an opinion on this.
yes, as I just said, this is a good idea. We really don't need guile to
read those files.
> I do definitely like cross platform development and a toolkit I have in
> mind is wxgtk/wxwindows because that has ports to Gtk/Motif and Windows
> and it would allow to create binaries that are linked against Xm or Gtk.
> I am not shure, havent decided as the Linux user in me keeps saying I
> should learn to hack KDE... Anyway, input on this is also greatly
> appreciated.
Well, gbib is already written for gnome. You would have to rewrite several
parts. Personally I dislike wx because the code becomes unefficient in
order to make it multi platform. But I agreed that gnome is still unstable
and you need to install too much libraries just to use it. Maybe moving
gbib to simply gtk+ or gtk-- would be better.
> My development platform is Linux and SGI but I have access to DEC Alphas
> AIXen and other Unix flavors.
GTK runs in all of them, AFAIK.
Alejandro
