As far as I know there are some who are doing similiar things, like the
lds-get application that basically is just a screen scraper. The problem
with this is any changing of the lds.org website and your application is
now broken and requires figuring out new regex to parse it.
The same will happen with gdSuite, I gaurantee it, as soon as it gets
more popular and use of it starts showing up on the Google radar they
will change it, they did the same when people were using the toolbar to
extract PR.
The church would not even have to release code, I would be more than
happy with an exposed web service. This would cost the church in
bandwidth though if more than this little group of members starting
exploring it's usage.
Dave
Steven H. McCown wrote:
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.
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