I got to thinking about our fretting that the church hasn't given out their source code or released an API.... They probably don't want to go to the effort for an unknown return.
A while back, I was really wanting to use Google Desktop Search as a sort of ad hoc database for an application that I was building. I did finally build it and it was pretty cool. Anyway... At the time, Google had not yet released their own API and I didn't know how to make the connection in the time that I had allotted. About that time, I came across an API from Airbear Software called gdSuite (http://www.airbearsoftware.com/gdsuite/). gdSuite allows applications to call into GDS with some new types of queries that weren't available at the time I was building my app and some that aren't available now. Aaron Feuer spent some time figuring out how GDS works and built his own GDS API that he released, publicly. I never heard that Google minded and gdSuite is still being produced. So, perhaps, those who are interested in a particular application could do the same thing. If useful applications started popping up, then you might get their attention. Wasn't it that famous ancient Mesopotamian philosopher who once said, "if you build it, they will come".... ;) Just a thought... Steve -----Original Message----- > On Behalf Of Alan Young > >The most you can hope for is that someone on this list has the ear (or >*is* the ear) of someone who can bring it up in the right places so >it'll be considered. Don't hold your breath though ... the church >takes a very long time to make changes. _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
