Am 26.02.2009 um 14:59 schrieb Eeli Kaikkonen:
Quoting Karl Kleinpaste <k...@kleinpaste.org>:
Eeli Kaikkonen <eekai...@mail.student.oulu.fi> writes:
But if you allow me to go back to BibleTime - ... At the moment
we have less manpower than Xiphos have had for some time
To me, that's an extraordinary and peculiar claim, considering the
dearth of contributors (at least in SVN commits, other than in
interface
translation and i18n-specific matters) until November.
And I meant after November :) You have had many talented and eager
contributors since then. I guess you (Karl) couldn't have done it by
yourself. Now BibleTime has been blessed with contributions of Gary
and Greg, so the situation is much better than some time ago when I
worked almost alone with help of Martin. But even Greg started a
serious Windows porting work session only couple of days ago, so I
dare to say Xiphos have had a bit more manpower recently. Maybe this
is a subjective feeling - after all, I feel all the time that
BibleTime development have been too slow and I have have had too
little time to contribute. Probably everyone here feels that way in
their own work.
I do.
What bugs me even more than lack of manpower for BibleTime right now
is the situation of MacSword. It's very important frontend, but how
many developers it has? Every Christian who uses Mac and who I know
has MacSword. It receives maybe most of the support requests in the
mailing list and forum. Yet it has near to one contributor as far as
I know - am I correct? I would rather direct new Mac developers to
MacSword than to BibleTime (except actual porting).
I did all there is alone for the last 3 years (except some help from
Nathan on the Web age). MacSword 2 is almost able to go for beta which
took almost all the time I had to spare for the last 8 months.
Lately I had someone (Hannes) who did some testing and gave good and
valuable feedback on MacSword 2.
I think even though many people have Macs nowadays, very few do
development on it. And then there is Objective-C and Interface Builder
which are languages tools only available to Mac. That makes it more
difficult for people coming to the Mac platform and wanting to
contribute.
My hope is that the new Windows frontends will gain popularity
amongst potential developers so that first Xiphos and soon BibleTime
could help the whole CrossWire community that way.
That'd be great. Even though I did not really use BibleTime nor
GnomeSword/Xiphos I'm looking forward to the new BibleTime version
based on QT4(?).
I think it is also very good that Xiphos is available on Windows now.
Good bless all our efforts.
Manfred
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