Hi mrmikel,
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Originally Posted by mrmikel
Kevin, development has completely stopped on Sigil. The main developer works full time writing code and writing and supporting it took too much time. It is written if I recall in C++ which is used primarily by professional programmers who are already working full time. There are a lot of people who can pick up Python, which is the language of Calibre, but the C languages are a different story.
As useful as it is, its user base, professional e book producers and serious amateurs is fairly small, so a financial reward is elusive.
Calibre has had an editor added to it, but it is not quite the same thing, making no attempt at WYSIWYG. You can write directly in Sigil, but that is not possible in the calibre editor. Sigil strives for valid code all the time, and enforces its own structure toward that end. Calibre lets you bring in any sort of junk html and play with it to your hearts content and only enforces valid code if you check book, which you must do repeatedly to get every last error.
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Yes, understood, but there a lots of volunteer programmers who understand C++. OpenOffice.org had a large number of them when I contributed code there, as does the KDE Desktop project, the Qt project, and many others. C++ only gets hard when strange advanced features are used that just make the code unsupportable, but this is generally not the case with the Sigil codebase.
As for development completely being stopped, it looks like someone has been doing some very simple build maintenance on it ...
according to github.com/user-none/Sigil I see the following:
src Fixed build issues (boost issues #7979 and #8971) 18 days ago
I realize that is not much.
I was just commenting on how clean and nice the code base is, how easy it is to follow, and how easy the build process is. There truly is the "bones" of a very nice product here! It is sad it will wither and die. I guess I can just keep my own version up and running until I find something else I like better.
Take care,
KevinH