When I used to use Windows there were these two programs that I used to use a lot. One is called Words written by a guy named William Whittaker and the other is a program called Vulsearch. Both are open source; Words in the sense that Mr. Whittaker has released the source and doesn't care what you use the program for and Vulsearch is actually GPL. So considering that both of these are open source and pretty simple they could probably be ported over to Solaris.
Now before I go any further I already know what some of you are thinking. You go to the Vulsearch site and see that it is a Catholic program for reading the Vulgate Bible. I can see you all reeling back in disgust. I know I am not really welcome here but I'm not going to stop being who I am so just know that your hate mail will go into the trash unread. The worst you can do is just have me banned again which as you can probably tell won't stop me from being who I am either but at least you won't have to deal with me anymore. Anyway like I was saying, Words basically has no license with the idea that it needs no license and Vulsearch is GPL. I myself am not a big fan of the GPL but we take what we can get. The source code for both of these programs is available so they should be portable to Solaris. Let me take a moment to address an objection I have heard before. Both of these programs work great under Wine so some may ask why port them if they already work perfectly under Wine on Solaris. Well the answer is simple, Solaris is not just another way to run Windows programs. Programs like iSilo that have not been ported and can not be ported to Solaris I run under Wine. I currently run Words and Vulsearch with Wine but a native port would be better. Let me address another objection. Some may ask why anyone in the OpenSolaris community should waste their time on a terminal program that is nothing but a Latin - English dictionary or a program used to search and read the Vulgate. I would point out that someone in the community already used their time to make a game about Dealing Drugs. Please don't tell me that the Open Solaris community is open to Drug Dealers but not people who can read Latin. Of course since I put it that way I will probably be banned again. The source for Vulsearch is well beyond my programming abilities but I did already take a shot at the Words program. Someone else already ported it to Linux and FreeBSD and wrote their steps down so I figured I could do the same thing. I needed an ADA compiler and got the GCC4 from Blastwave. I tried several time to compile the different parts of the program using gnatmake but to no avail. The program will compile and run but is broken. English to Latin works fine amazingly but the Latin to English won't work, which is a shame because that is what most people will want the program for. I have downloaded an Ada plugin for Netbeans and will try to compile the program again but I don't really think I know enough about Netbeans to get it to work. Before the last time when I was banned there was someone in the community who said something about changing the language for the program from Ada to something else but I can't remember what and now that the website has changed, I can't find the conversation. So if anyone would like to help with this and try to get either Words or Vulsearch ported and maybe even added to the contrib repository then lets work on it. I am not a programmer but I have been learning a lot since I started using Open Solaris. Let me know what I have to do and I will try to get it done. People with just objections and hateful comments about us "evil Christians" take a hike someplace where they are giving out Darwin awards cause I don't feel like hearing it. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
