[bt-devel] Thoughts about the Win port and misc things

[Martin Gruner]

On Sonntag, 12. November 2000 01:04, you wrote:
> Martin, you said Troys frontend is good. There are also so many other good
> programs under Windows, why should we port?

A good question.

> Now I think people who want to use BibleTime should install Linux.
> I know installation is difficult, I think if we do not port we should make
> a easy to install and easy to use software package. I have to provide
> binary packages etc.

No problem if there are good windows frontends. People who use windows can 
use them.

> At the moment I don't know what to do.
> We have two solutions:
> 	-Provide packages for Win and Linux
> 	-Provide an easy to install package for Linux, BSD and Unix systems.
> Binares for almost all systems
>
> I think a stable, fast, easy to use Bible study tool for Linux and Unix
> systems is better than a half-weight cross-plattform solution.
>
> What do you think?

The same.

>
> Other things:
> At the moment I think about to get some domains (webspace, cgi, PHP3 + PHP4
> ....). I think this is good because we can then coordinate the work better
> (emails for developers, we can do administration, we have logs, FTP
> access). If I do it it would be also possible to have some .net, .com and
> .org domains. Ideas?

Good. IMO you should set up the bank account to finance this and the  
hardware you'll buy.
One idea: the "authors webpage" should be divided into active and inactive 
developers, so that people will realize the need of additional help.

>> I do also think about the several distirbutions of Linux. I think it's good
> to buy some cheap versions of them so we can provide binary packages of
> BibleTime for the different distributions.
> Which plattforms are important in your opinion:
> 	[ ] 	RedHat 7.0
> 	[ ] 	RedHat 6.2
> 	[ ] 	SuSE 7.0
> 	[ ] 	SuSE 6.4
> 	[ ] 	Caldera 2.4
> 	[ ] 	Caldera 2.3
> 	[ ] 	FreeBSD 4.1
> 	[ ] 	FreeBSD 4.0
> 	[ ]	Mandrake 7.2
> 	[ ]	Mandrake 7.1
> 	[ ]	Debian 2.2
> 	[ ]	Debian 2.0
> 	[ ]	Cortel Linux 1.2
> 	[ ]	others (please give their names)

All you can get. If they have kde2, they will have a bt 1.0 rpm, otherwise a 
bt 2.x rpm.

> Please post your opinion, probably it's the opinion which shows me what to
> do (port, binaries etc.).

port = no
binaries = yes

Martin