Re: [be] future bibledit

[Robert Hunt]

On 09/03/10 05:07, David Gardner wrote:
> Dear Teus,
>   Can I suggest that calling the new code bibledit might be a bad start?
> Reasons:
>
> 1. Confusion
> - people might have previously looked at bibledit and decided it's not for
> them (e.g. they want the new one).
> - People might want the new one, look in the repositories and get the old
>    one.
> - People might want to update their desktop installation and find that it's
>    suddenly gone.
> - reviewers / recomenders / experts can't say "get the latest version of
>    bibledit" if there are 2 versions around.
>
> 2. Versioning
> - The new program will presumably start with a lower version number,
>   which means that installers won't install it.
>
> 3. bug reporting
>    "I've found a bug, introduced in bibledit 3.2"  could well be a real
>    problem down the road.
>
>
> Can I suggest you name the new one bibledit-web or similar?
>
> David
>    
I second this. Or else bibledit-anywhere.
> ps:
> You wrote:
>    
> > Apart from that a more important reason for this is that the whole world
> > is moving to the web.
> >      
> I'm not at all sure that this is true...  I can see that it's a trend in
> some circles, but from what I've read there's quite a lot of scepticism
> about the concept of cloud-computing too (aspects such as excessive
> dependence, lack of control, accidental deletion or hardware failure, etc.).
>    
It's easy (I think) to setup our own cloud servers (esp. with the new 
Ubuntu cloud server) to address some of these concerns.

My concern is the reliability of the net connection -- it must have good 
offline capability.

Have you considered using Python instead of PHP?

Robert.