The build system will generate a deb file but I didn't upload one last night -
it is there now.
I agree about Xiphos. The funny thing is that xiphos development has seemed
mostly stalled for a good while (just my general feeling and maybe not
accurate!), and most of the activity I've seen on the list have been about how
there's no editor - webkit is a problem but there's no good alternate, we still
have gtk2 because of webkit and windows, and so on. On Ubuntu/Mint the latest
package is something like a year behind and etc. Add to that the fact that some
of the features I wanted to play with are fairly different so I thought I'd just
try something new so I could do what I wanted with it.
Ironically, literally the day after I started working on my little program
Xiphos activity picked up dramatically and it looks like someone started using
AI to work on it!.
Anyhow, I would love to help again on Xiphos. I'm no help with macOS because I
don't have and never have used a mac.
One thing that I did in verdad was use liteHtml and build a display layer in a
custom fltk widget - so there is no need for a large html display library like
webkit or servo or anything. I'm pretty sure something like that could be
easily built with AI for xiphos. I also built a custom editor as well.
Anyhow, have to run but I am certainly open to contributing to Xiphos again.
Moses
On 3/14/26 5:10 AM, Fr Cyrille wrote:
Hi Moses,
I haven't installed your app yet—it looks great (it would be nice to have a DEB
package for Debian/Ubuntu)—but my only regret is that maybe we could have
focused our efforts on improving Xiphos and, above all, porting it to Mac,
rather than adding a new app.
But that's just my opinion!
Le 13/03/2026 à 21:46, Moses McKnight a écrit :
Hi,
I have a new bible program at https://github.com/mozmck/verdad for anyone who
is interested.
I have long used Xiphos (from back when it was gnomesword) and really like it,
so the basic layout of mine is very similar to that. My motivation to build
this was mostly that I had a number of features I like or wanted and I
recently became interested in trying AI for coding. Another part of my
motivation was to make something with few and light dependencies, and easy to
port to windows and macOS.
Probably the most unique thing about Verdad is that it was coded almost
entirely by Claude and Codex (mostly Codex) in about 2.5 weeks of my spare
time telling them what to do in plain english. That includes EVERYTHING
including the build system, packaging, and even the icon. I did tweak a few
lines of code a couple of times and modified a 24x24 icon myself, but that's
about it.
There are several features and changes I still have in mind and want to play
with (not to mention inevitable bugs) but I think it is pretty usable as it is.
Blessings,
Moses
--
Vous aimez la Bible ? Vous êtes étudiant en théologie ? Utilisez l'application
libre Xiphos <https://xiphos.org/> ou Andbible <https://andbible.github.io/> et
accédez aux textes sources, à des commentaires, des dictionnaires et beaucoup
d'autres fonctionnalités... Me contacter pour des traductions en français.
--
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look
for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
(Hebrews 9:27-28)
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