Re: [be] bibledit-gtk-4.4

[Teus Benschop]

On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 07:41 -0400, Dan Dennison wrote:
> Is this a good time to freeze Bibledit? Windows builds take some time
> on their own to become stable, and continual syncing to keep up with
> HEAD can pull in large and unexpected dependencies, slowing down the
> process.
> 
> Do you anticipate large feature changes or shifts soon?

I do not anticipate large feature changes or shifts soon. I consider
Bibledit-Gtk mature, and have put it in maintenance mode for some
releases now. Code changes are very few these days. I am not thinking of
freezing it entirely, because small changes in code, bug fixes perhaps,
are expected all the time. It is a good time, I think, to port it to
Windows now, without expecting the codebase to change much.

> 
> Another reason the Windows build is from the 3.x era is for the window
> layout, which our translators find easier to work with. Is there any
> hope whatsoever of having an option to return to that UI?

I realize now that the various translators have their own preferences.
The reason that the floating windows came in is that some translators
requested this. I have been doing quite a number of 'impossible' things
in Gtk in order to get floating Windows, which are not natively
available in Gtk. The floating Windows give the translators the option
to arrange the Windows to their own liking, whereas the previous window
layout was less flexible. So I have no intention to go back to window
layout of the 3.x versions. Patches are welcome though.

I do much appreciate the work that you have been doing, Dan, over the
various years, to port Bibledit to Windows. You had to cope with a
swiftly changing code base, which made porting to Windows harder. I
realize that there are more people using Windows, so that means that the
port you create is likely to be used by more users than the Linux
version.

Teus

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