Thread: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
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Nathan is offline Nathan
2009-10-20 , 16:43
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#148
Originally Posted by Hogwash View Post
Now that you've got the building blocks established on the Maemo5 platform, and brought Rapier 'back to life', you really have got us to a great launching point for developing a new GUI.
Well, I have both ICU and CLucene submitted successfully and built, also optified. So the next library I am going to try and get up today is sword and the python-sword interface and then Pierre can upload the modified Rapier source I sent him.


Regarding time - I am a pro SE, and I'm not getting paid for this, so I tend to squeeze my book-lernin' into lunches and evenings.
Ditto here, this is totally Pro-Se. But at some point in the future when I can convince the wife that I really do "need" the $600 toy, I will want a working Bible program. ;-D


[quote]I've got deadlines as I'm sure Nathan does. I'm extremely impressed that Nathan has got the entire stack including Rapier pushed into devel - he has arguably single-handedly got us to the 'critical mass' point where ongoing dev is progressively easier.

Actually I haven't got the whole stack into extras yet. I have to wait until the dependent libraries are in extras before I can work on the "sword" library. ICU and CLucene are finally now in; so unless I make some mistake the Sword library should up and working later today.

I also have passed all of my changes to make Rapier work back to Pierre since he has decided to maintain it in fremantle. So it will be in his ballpark to upload it to extras once I'm done with the support libraries.

My thoughts regarding an 'attack plan' is to first spend some time exploring Qt and what I can do within the confines of the Maemo5/hildon environment....then (as Nathan suggested) start digging into BibleTime to see where a clean 'split' can be made (hopefully the code isn't so gnarly that this is impossible!). There should be a layer of code that deals with interacting with the Sword API - we can borrow heavily from this - and above this should be some presentation layer code that we can hopefully find a way to 'massage' into a new hildon-style GUI.
Agreed. It appears joshn53 is ahead of us on this one. He can probably give us some pointers. ;-)


Everything I've just typed comes with the caveat "I'm a ***** and could be totally wrong"
Ditto. My thoughts are really off the cuff -- I haven't looked at BibleTime or GnomeSword. We could find they are a total mess and it would be better to just code to the sword library.

Nathan