Re: [LAF-devel] Re: Design

[Wesley J L. <wj...@ic...>]

On Sunday 10 August 2003 2:29 am, David M. Brown wrote:
> Hey all.  I'm glad someone poked my memory about this project.  I
> more or less had forgotten about it. :/
[ . . . ]
> So, I think it would be helpful to get an idea of who has what
> skills. This seems like it is already coming out in the emails so
> far.  It also helps to know who wants to do what.  I don't mind doing
> project management type stuff.  But in order to do that I need lots
> of feedback initially on who wants to do what.

As far as skills and who-wants-to-do-what kinds of things, I can=20
probably help with the overall design, coding, managing CVS (I know how=20
to do just about anything you could ever want with CVS ;), and even=20
reverse-engineering PAF file formats if we need to do that. Basically,=20
I'm most interested in working hard to get a good infrastructure set=20
up, get a solid design, help build a framework, and then see how it=20
goes from there. ;)

If I were going to pick tools to use on my own, I'd recommend:
  - C++ for the core
  - Qt for the GUI (and could be used as well for i.e. Unicode support)
  - db4 for the database (SQL might be okay too)
  - ruby as an embedded scripting language (if needed)

What are others interested in using?

Also, what license(s) are people thinking of releasing under?=20
Personally, I feel that it makes the most sense to release applications=20
under the GPL, as it guarantees that any changes made to the program=20
will stay as Free Software.

> One last thing.  I know a couple of people who work for the LDS
> church software development department, but I'm not sure if they work
> on PAF or not.  They may be able to get me some information on PAF's
> native file format, though.  Heh, I once wrote to them a while back
> about doing this project and getting what help we could from them,
> and they were absolutely NOT interested.  Maybe things will have
> changed by now.

It would sure be nice to get some info from them, but I think it might=20
be tough to get them to cough up much info. I believe PAF (at least the=20
later versions) was outsourced and much of the internals are really=20
proprietary. It's kind of sad, actually... But hey, hopefully I'm wrong=20
and they'll be more willing to give you some info this time around. ;)

=2D-=20
Wesley J. Landaker - wj...@ic...
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