On 8 Nov 2002 at 10:05, David A. Desrosiers wrote:

> 
> > ..if we have the sources lying around.
> 
>       That's the crux exactly. Unless someone has the source, we're stuck.
> As far as I know, nobody has actually received the source Dirk is using for
> those tools. Anyone else happen to have the source from Dirk?

Dirk has a lot of sources in CVS. The things missing are the sources for 
plucker-build.exe stub 
program and the Inno Setup installer script. A new Inno Setup installer script has 
everything I 
think would have been in the original.

> > Could you add something to the Plucker Desktop section in the left column
> > that says it includes the "distiller/parser".  Something like, if you want
> > to prepare your own content (as opposed to the sample ones you have), the
> > Plucker Desktop contains everything you need?  And maybe something to the
> > viewer section that says that if you only want to read already prepared
> > material, the viewer is all you need?
> 
>       Sure. This sounds doable.

Sounds good, perhaps just call it a full Windows package or something. Perhaps list 
the 
components inside the package? Somewhat similar to Bill's OSX package. The components 
to 
install can be unchecked/checked in the installer, in ways that don't result in broken 
installs. 
There will be a component in the package for doing each task. At the moment these are:
- The Plucker distiller, in Python (together with an appropriate Python setup, to have 
it 
running right away).
- The Palm Plucker viewers, both normal res and high-res versions, in all the 
translations. 
- Plucker Desktop (GUI), and translations.
- plucker-build.exe: A commandline only interface for the Python distiller.
- Help files

> Having a good, responsive mailing list full of helpful users, good
> facilities to getting the source and reporting bugs has improved the
> "responsibility" of the project considerably, and the users appreciate it.

I agree that the mailing lists are quite well managed and filled with helpful people.
 

Best wishes,
Robert
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