I think Ben is right. With a few exceptions (mostly mentioned below), BPBible meets or exceeds most options available for Windows users. BibleCS will never touch the localization potential in BPBible 0.4+ because of the utf8 capability in BPBible, so I agree it needs to be on the main page.
Daniel -----Original Message----- From: "Ben Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel@crosswire.org> Sent: 12/2/08 5:44 AM Subject: Re: [sword-devel] New front page CrossWire On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Peter von Kaehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would agree with DM that in-development stuff shouldn't be on the > > front page yet. If the developers don't feel their work is up to version > > 1.0 status, I don't think we should be directing traffic there yet. > > BPBible is the only one I spot in this situation. > > I thought about this - reasons I thought I include it were a) the status > of BpBible in portable apps - which is a very important site for many > windows users b) the fact that it is a stable and nice application > irrespective of the low version number. Considering what kind of garbage > sometimes carries a 1.0 (none of us - just general) I thought 0.3.1 is a > nice understatement. But anyway, consensus shall rule. This is why I started BPBible at 0.1, not 1.0. However, I consider that 0.3.1 is perfectly usable. 0.4 (which I will try to release tonight - Matthew found a few problems in the prerelease of it, which have been fixed...) adds quite a few new features. Jon has certainly been wanting this on the frontpage - thanks for doing this, Peter. Personally I think that the 0.4 of BPBible > 1.5.11 of BibleCS (for what I want it for - and most other users would as well). The things which are currently lacking from BPBible are that are seen in (some) other SWORD apps: 1) good editor support 2) Support for RtoL languages. 3) InstallManager It is likely that a switch to XULRunner would make 1) and 2) easy. 3) just needs implementing, but I haven't decided how best to present this information to the user. Counterbalancing this, however, there are a few features that only BPBible has in the SWORD world. I think that BPBible is likely to be the most direct competitor to e-Sword, especially when the three points above are covered. God Bless, Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. Giôên 3:14 (ESV) _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
