Re: [Gjiten-general] Anybody home?

[Gregor R. <set...@fr...>]

Hello Ben

> Is the gjiten project still being developed?
>
> I'm interested in either joining the project or using the source code
> of gjiten in another project.
>
> Thanks.

I think Botond doesn't do much work on it any more.
gjiten is very stable and has (IMHO) the features you'd expect from  
an electronic Japanese dictionary, so that might not be a bad tink.
I have written a Mac OS X "clone" of gjiten for daily use with almost  
the same functionality (minus the kanji dictionary). I didn't release  
it to the public though.
Since the gjiten code relies heavily on glib/gtk+, I decided to use  
sqlite3 as database search engine instead.
I mainly use the Wadoku Jiten (German-Japanese), which is in the  
process of being switched to a more powerful XML format. I was  
considering implementing that too. On the other hand, I have no idea  
the edict maintainers would be willing to switch, should the format  
definition become (finally) finalized.

Regards,
Gregor