I think this is a great idea! It was my hearts desire to start a PalmOS port of Sword a while back. But after some looking into the possibility I found Poetry's bible reader (actually I think Chris told me about it.) We decided to link to Poetry's web site. About six months ago Poetry told me about his desire to go commercial, and I asked him if he minded me taking over the project. He was very open to it, but I unfortunately didn't have the time to pick it up. One thing I needed was the compiler he was using (called falchnet or something), actually it isn't required, I have actually compiled the project without it, but it would have made things a bit easier. My point is... I too would be glad to see someone take the reigns on this project. I would love to help but I doubt I will get the time. I think you will find poetry's coding style very consistent which should be of some help. David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Gruner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 10:03 AM Subject: [sword-devel] Re: [sword-cvs] The Sword Project for Palm OS?
> Hey guys, > > not sure, but I guess you may want to discuss this on sword-devel rather than > here on sword-cvs, which is not a discussion channel. I'm cc'ing this > message. > > But after Poetry Poon decided to close his sources and go commercial, Chris > Little made a snapshot of all the files that were available (GPL, afaik) up > to this point. They reside on some harddrive now and are waiting for somebody > to continue this great project in the Open Source way. It is basically a fork > that is still under GPL and can be developed further. So if you want to warm > the coding areas of your brain and take over, that would be cool I guess. > > Martin > > Am Samstag, 18. Januar 2003 16:00 schrieb Paul Gould: > > David wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >I've been in the background for some time, observing what is going on. I > > >know you have Bible Reader from http://palmbible.sourceforge.net/ > > > (actually the correct link is now http://www.asaisoft.com/) linked for > > > Palm OS handhelds. But I also know that Poetry Poon said he was going to > > > take his program out of GPL (to which someone responded that this cannot > > > be done). In moving his site to the new URL, he removed the discussion > > > forum and later BibleConverter (with which some of us had tried converted > > > Sword modules for Bible Reader). Basically, the project almost seems > > > dead. > > > > > >So I was wondering, are there any other plans for Palm OS machines? > > > > > >Thanks, > > > > > >David > > > > I, also, would like to weigh in on this.... there are many files in the > > public domain that have not been made for the Palm. The uconv utility is > > not quite what we need. I have not been a full-time developer for many > > years, and my skills are quite rusty, if not completely corroded <smile>. > > Olivetree's reader is nice, but, as they make their money selling > > databases, I don't believe they think it in their financial interest to > > make converters. Asaisoft's utilities are not publicly available. > > > > What's a poor guy to do?! > > > > Regards to all, > > > > Paul > > ----- > > All incoming and outgoing email is scanned by > > Norton Antivirus for your protection and mine. > > ----- > > > > Ne Molesti Te Deprimant > > Per stercus tauri ad gloriam > > Ecce! Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
