FYI. As the GnomeSword team has approached its goal of the WIN32 port, the question was raised about its name. Neither "GNOME" nor "Sword" necessarily has a lot of meaning (notwithstanding the project name), even to Linux users, who may not know that their desktop scheme has a name; it was expressed to me not long ago that "GnomeSword" sounds like a Dungeons&Dragons program. I'm such a Linux geek that I had never noticed that until it was pointed out.
So we set about finding a replacement name. The name chosen by a committee of about a dozen is Xiphos, that is, ξίφος, one of several Greek words for Sword. Credit to Martin Zibricky for coming up with it. This both removes the mental dependency on GNOME (though we use its libraries, of course) and eliminates a common source of confusion with other Windows software such as e-Sword. We are in mid-conversion now. SourceForge is in progress to finish their data center move, San Francisco -> Chicago, and the portion of their infrastructure that handles project purge and removal is not available, hence we are not able right this instant to complete the takeover of the existing-but-stillborn SourceForge "xiphos" project name. So we are slightly schizophrenic until they finish (schedule not known). That's OK, we can spackle over the semantic cracks pretty well. We are aiming for our 3.0 release in a week or three, once our graphics guys can do a number on program and website imagery. --karl _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page