On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Peter von Kaehne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:refdoc@gmx.net">refdoc@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> I would agree with DM that in-development stuff shouldn't be on the<br>
> front page yet. If the developers don't feel their work is up to version<br>
> 1.0 status, I don't think we should be directing traffic there yet.<br>
> BPBible is the only one I spot in this situation.<br>
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</div>I thought about this - reasons I thought I include it were a) the status<br>
of BpBible in portable apps - which is a very important site for many<br>
windows users b) the fact that it is a stable and nice application<br>
irrespective of the low version number. Considering what kind of garbage<br>
sometimes carries a 1.0 (none of us - just general) I thought 0.3.1 is a<br>
nice understatement. But anyway, consensus shall rule.</blockquote><div>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). <br>
</div></div><br>The things which are currently lacking from BPBible are that are seen in (some) other SWORD apps:<br>1) good editor support<br>2) Support for RtoL languages.<br>3) InstallManager<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br clear="all">God Bless,<br>Ben<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Multitudes, multitudes,<br> in the valley of decision!<br>For the day of the LORD is near<br>
in the valley of decision.<br><br>Giôên 3:14 (ESV)<br>