I just found this pm this note here: http://swordwarrior.net/swforums/index.php?PHPSESSID=9ati916ehptcbvqsvl6ub63hs3&topic=2.msg7#new
Sword Bible is "mothballed" and hence I think i will take it off. LCDBible I remain unsure about, the developer was very non-committal in his response, solely expressed some upset about his blurb never being updated in the past. I guess though that his focus has shifted and he is disinterested. Thoughts? Peter von Kaehne wrote: > jhphx wrote: >> Brian wrote: >>> Should we have a "crosswire.ru" site? >> One of the good things about open source projects is that by nature they >> encourage horizontal development instead of only vertical. > > I think this is the case. And we are seeing it. Daniel Owens, David > Haslam and I are - all from different backgrounds - in the project for > that exact reason - a project which appeared open to us to pursue what > we felt was needed in a world without Christ. > > Do we need to "send" >> the web site to Russia or just the idea? I think one of the best things that >> could be done is to have pages in various languages that encourage people in >> other countries to do likewise and that as much as possible we would help >> them >> start their own sites. > > I think as long as the software is open and generally well thought > through in a fashion which allows easy i18n then this is all that is > required. Chose your toolkits and your rendering machines with some care > and make sure that your strings are never hardcoded. > > As a rule Linux programming (and Linux/FOSS derrived stuff like gtk and > wxPython, MozEmbed etc etc) is extremely good in allowing i18n, but it > still requires some thought - particularly when RtoL comes into the > play. DM will attest to the difficulties he faced to getting BD behave > in the fashion it should. > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
