Comments on: An Exchange With a Linux Developer http://www.bsreview.org/blog/2008/08/an-exchange-with-a-linux-developer.html News, articles, and reviews of Bible software Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:24:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: karl kleinpaste http://www.bsreview.org/blog/2008/08/an-exchange-with-a-linux-developer.html#comment-225 karl kleinpaste Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:42:56 +0000 http://www.bsreview.org/blog/?p=1130#comment-225 I still feel I might have come across a bit whiny in that first mail to you, which was not intended. But I'm glad we've had the chance in the last couple weeks to exchange enough email to get a grasp on each other's perspective. And I hadn't realized that the survey was not BSR's -- whoops, sorry 'bout that. Cygwin may well be too much of a problem for many Windows users. My point in mentioning it is just to make it clear that GnomeSword is available to the much larger userbase there. Also, now that I'm building an install-ready GnomeSword, the average user isn't stuck with building it himself -- install Cygwin, get a small set of GnomeSword files and run their install script, and away you go. (There simply don't exist tools to build a single install entity for GS under Cygwin. But who knows, maybe I'll get motivated and try to construct the tools needed myself.) The biggest problem for Linux users of these packages is exactly the one you ran into, which is synchronization between recent project releases -vs- package management at the repositories. There's little I personally can do about that, but fortunately the discussion among a bunch of people that has resulted from these foibles has led to a probable much-improved result. Fedora repositories have long stayed at the leading edge, but Ubuntu/Debian repos lagged behind, and that should be changing soon. I still feel I might have come across a bit whiny in that first mail to you, which was not intended. But I’m glad we’ve had the chance in the last couple weeks to exchange enough email to get a grasp on each other’s perspective. And I hadn’t realized that the survey was not BSR’s — whoops, sorry ’bout that.

Cygwin may well be too much of a problem for many Windows users. My point in mentioning it is just to make it clear that GnomeSword is available to the much larger userbase there. Also, now that I’m building an install-ready GnomeSword, the average user isn’t stuck with building it himself — install Cygwin, get a small set of GnomeSword files and run their install script, and away you go. (There simply don’t exist tools to build a single install entity for GS under Cygwin. But who knows, maybe I’ll get motivated and try to construct the tools needed myself.)

The biggest problem for Linux users of these packages is exactly the one you ran into, which is synchronization between recent project releases -vs- package management at the repositories. There’s little I personally can do about that, but fortunately the discussion among a bunch of people that has resulted from these foibles has led to a probable much-improved result. Fedora repositories have long stayed at the leading edge, but Ubuntu/Debian repos lagged behind, and that should be changing soon.

]]> By: Rubén Gómez http://www.bsreview.org/blog/2008/08/an-exchange-with-a-linux-developer.html#comment-180 Rubén Gómez Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:08:48 +0000 http://www.bsreview.org/blog/?p=1130#comment-180 Yes, that's right. I am currently running the latest version of GnomeSword. BibleTime is a completely different story, of which I will have something more to say in a later post. Right now, I am wasting some precious time trying to run it under Ubuntu, but it is causing more grief than joy. Unfortunately, it is not easy to review apps you can't even install properly and get to work... <sigh> Yes, that’s right. I am currently running the latest version of GnomeSword. BibleTime is a completely different story, of which I will have something more to say in a later post. Right now, I am wasting some precious time trying to run it under Ubuntu, but it is causing more grief than joy. Unfortunately, it is not easy to review apps you can’t even install properly and get to work…

]]> By: Raoul Snyman http://www.bsreview.org/blog/2008/08/an-exchange-with-a-linux-developer.html#comment-178 Raoul Snyman Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:01:13 +0000 http://www.bsreview.org/blog/?p=1130#comment-178 I'm presuming then we'll be seeing a review of either GnomeSword or BibleTime sometime soon. They're both more advanced than MacSword (from what I can gather), and could do with some exposure on a site that purports to review Bible software. And it's fairly easy to review those 2 apps. Download a Linux Live CD (the Ubuntu or Kubuntu Desktop CDs are such) and boot your machine off the CD. I’m presuming then we’ll be seeing a review of either GnomeSword or BibleTime sometime soon. They’re both more advanced than MacSword (from what I can gather), and could do with some exposure on a site that purports to review Bible software.

And it’s fairly easy to review those 2 apps. Download a Linux Live CD (the Ubuntu or Kubuntu Desktop CDs are such) and boot your machine off the CD.

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