Re: [be] reference exchange in Windows

[Teus Benschop]

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 07:21 -0700, Dan Dennison wrote:
> On Oct 12, 2009, at 4:47 AM, Teus Benschop wrote:
> 
> > If BibleTime works the same on Windows as it does on Linux, then the
> > basics for it to work would be there. As far as I now can see in the
> > code, the DBus stuff has been switched off in Windows.
> 
> DBus works on Windows, but the way Xiphos integration was done, using  
> domain sockets, doesn't work. There is a DBus and a DBus-Glib on MinGW.
> 
> Thus, Xiphos integration has been switched off on Windows, until a  
> cross-platform solution supported in the Xiphos tree is made available.
> 

The domain sockets were short-lived. The current version of Xiphos that
is in svn, since today, uses dbus, and has removed the domain sockets.

> >
> >> I assume I need to
> >> set up Windows Outpost in Bibledit, but after I locate  
> >> bwoutpost.exe it
> >> requires me to find Wine (which is obviously not installed on a  
> >> Windows
> >> machine), so I can't do anything but cancel.
> >
> > The Outpost is not needed for BibleTime. And that dialog for setting  
> > up
> > outpost probably needs to be looked in on Windows, since there's no  
> > wine
> > on Windows.
> 
> Outpost is useful on Windows for URLs, printing, BibleWorks, and SIL  
> tools integration. On Windows, currently you must use it like a  
> 'network outpost' and connect to localhost.
> 
> Yes, its clunky, but it does work. If Teus is willing to make a  
> Windows-specific Gtk+ dialog, I'll wire it up.
> 

Ok, I've submitted a task for this windows-specific outpost setup
dialog. If you can define the requirements, Dan, in that task, I'll code
it.

Teus.