[sword-devel] New sword based bible program

[Moses McKnight]

The build system will generate a deb file but I didn't upload one last night - 
it is there now.

I agree about Xiphos.  The funny thing is that xiphos development has seemed 
mostly stalled for a good while (just my general feeling and maybe not 
accurate!), and most of the activity I've seen on the list have been about how 
there's no editor - webkit is a problem but there's no good alternate, we still 
have gtk2 because of webkit and windows, and so on.  On Ubuntu/Mint the latest 
package is something like a year behind and etc.  Add to that the fact that some 
of the features I wanted to play with are fairly different so I thought I'd just 
try something new so I could do what I wanted with it.

Ironically, literally the day after I started working on my little program 
Xiphos activity picked up dramatically and it looks like someone started using 
AI to work on it!.

Anyhow, I would love to help again on Xiphos.  I'm no help with macOS because I 
don't have and never have used a mac.

One thing that I did in verdad was use liteHtml and build a display layer in a 
custom fltk widget - so there is no need for a large html display library like 
webkit or servo or anything.  I'm pretty sure something like that could be 
easily built with AI for xiphos.  I also built a custom editor as well.

Anyhow, have to run but I am certainly open to contributing to Xiphos again.

Moses

On 3/14/26 5:10 AM, Fr Cyrille wrote:
> Hi Moses,
> I haven't installed your app yet—it looks great (it would be nice to have a DEB 
> package for Debian/Ubuntu)—but my only regret is that maybe we could have 
> focused our efforts on improving Xiphos and, above all, porting it to Mac, 
> rather than adding a new app.
> But that's just my opinion!
> 
> Le 13/03/2026 à 21:46, Moses McKnight a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a new bible program at https://github.com/mozmck/verdad for anyone who 
>> is interested.
>>
>> I have long used Xiphos (from back when it was gnomesword) and really like it, 
>> so the basic layout of mine is very similar to that.  My motivation to build 
>> this was mostly that I had a number of features I like or wanted and I 
>> recently became interested in trying AI for coding.  Another part of my 
>> motivation was to make something with few and light dependencies, and easy to 
>> port to windows and macOS.
>>
>> Probably the most unique thing about Verdad is that it was coded almost 
>> entirely by Claude and Codex (mostly Codex) in about 2.5 weeks of my spare 
>> time telling them what to do in plain english. That includes EVERYTHING 
>> including the build system, packaging, and even the icon.  I did tweak a few 
>> lines of code a couple of times and modified a 24x24 icon myself, but that's 
>> about it.
>>
>> There are several features and changes I still have in mind and want to play 
>> with (not to mention inevitable bugs) but I think it is pretty usable as it is.
>>
>> Blessings,
>> Moses
>>
>>
> 
> -- 
> Vous aimez la Bible ? Vous êtes étudiant en théologie ? Utilisez l'application 
> libre Xiphos <https://xiphos.org/> ou Andbible <https://andbible.github.io/> et 
> accédez aux textes sources, à des commentaires, des dictionnaires et beaucoup 
> d'autres fonctionnalités... Me contacter pour des traductions en français.
> 

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