Fabulous, indeed! My Java skills are pretty bad, but, from what I've seen of the code, it's pretty straight-forward. Diaspora doesn't seem to be able to export the Thompson Chain References (unless I'm not doing something right), and this was what I really wanted to incorporate, but, there's a way, I'm sure, to be able to do something like this.
Regards to all, Paul ----- All incoming and outgoing email is scanned by Norton Antivirus for your protection and mine. ----- Ne Molesti Te Deprimant Per stercus tauri ad gloriam Ecce! Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Trotz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Re: [sword-cvs] The Sword Project for Palm OS? > I think this is a great idea! It was my hearts desire to start a PalmOS port > of Sword a while back. But after some looking into the possibility I found > Poetry's bible reader (actually I think Chris told me about it.) We decided > to link to Poetry's web site. About six months ago Poetry told me about his > desire to go commercial, and I asked him if he minded me taking over the > project. He was very open to it, but I unfortunately didn't have the time to > pick it up. One thing I needed was the compiler he was using (called > falchnet or something), actually it isn't required, I have actually compiled > the project without it, but it would have made things a bit easier. > My point is... I too would be glad to see someone take the reigns on this > project. I would love to help but I doubt I will get the time. I think you > will find poetry's coding style very consistent which should be of some > help. > David > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Gruner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Paul Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 10:03 AM > Subject: [sword-devel] Re: [sword-cvs] The Sword Project for Palm OS? > > > > Hey guys, > > > > not sure, but I guess you may want to discuss this on sword-devel rather > than > > here on sword-cvs, which is not a discussion channel. I'm cc'ing this > > message. > > > > But after Poetry Poon decided to close his sources and go commercial, > Chris > > Little made a snapshot of all the files that were available (GPL, afaik) > up > > to this point. They reside on some harddrive now and are waiting for > somebody > > to continue this great project in the Open Source way. It is basically a > fork > > that is still under GPL and can be developed further. So if you want to > warm > > the coding areas of your brain and take over, that would be cool I guess. > > > > Martin > > > > Am Samstag, 18. Januar 2003 16:00 schrieb Paul Gould: > > > David wrote: > > > >Hi, > > > > > > > >I've been in the background for some time, observing what is going on. > I > > > >know you have Bible Reader from http://palmbible.sourceforge.net/ > > > > (actually the correct link is now http://www.asaisoft.com/) linked for > > > > Palm OS handhelds. But I also know that Poetry Poon said he was going > to > > > > take his program out of GPL (to which someone responded that this > cannot > > > > be done). In moving his site to the new URL, he removed the discussion > > > > forum and later BibleConverter (with which some of us had tried > converted > > > > Sword modules for Bible Reader). Basically, the project almost seems > > > > dead. > > > > > > > >So I was wondering, are there any other plans for Palm OS machines? > > > > > > > >Thanks, > > > > > > > >David > > > > > > I, also, would like to weigh in on this.... there are many files in the > > > public domain that have not been made for the Palm. The uconv utility > is > > > not quite what we need. I have not been a full-time developer for many > > > years, and my skills are quite rusty, if not completely corroded > <smile>. > > > Olivetree's reader is nice, but, as they make their money selling > > > databases, I don't believe they think it in their financial interest to > > > make converters. Asaisoft's utilities are not publicly available. > > > > > > What's a poor guy to do?! > > > > > > Regards to all, > > > > > > Paul > > > ----- > > > All incoming and outgoing email is scanned by > > > Norton Antivirus for your protection and mine. > > > ----- > > > > > > Ne Molesti Te Deprimant > > > Per stercus tauri ad gloriam > > > Ecce! Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sword-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
