A new PAF
I wasn’t able to make it to the LDS tech talk session a few weeks ago, but Dan Hanks recently blogged about it, and I really wish I’d gone.
The church is also now in the design stages of a new open-source personal record manager that will interface with the new system and will perhaps take the role that PAF plays now.
Very good. It looks like they’ll be writing it in Java (or something similar), which is really quite a pity, but at least it’ll be something. (If only they’d realize how much better Ruby and Python and Perl are. ~sigh~) It’ll be a while before anything comes of this, though — several months at the very least. But since it’ll be open-source, with any luck they’ll keep it open from the beginning so that people can use it as it develops, rather than having to wait until a release.
Anyway, people keep asking me how my “PAF for Mac” (as this project originally started) is coming along, and it’s always disappointing to have to tell them it’s in suspended animation. But hopefully not for long! (And yes, I realize I keep saying that, but someday it’s really going to change. :))
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The wheels of progress turn slowly at the Church. I would be surprised if anything usable is ready in less than a couple of years.
Ruby and Python I could understand, but does anyone write cross-platform desktop applications in Perl?
Hopefully they will consider Ruby or Python, as CocoaRuby and PyObjC should let you build a nice Mac client. I’m assuming there are equivalent toolkits on Windows and Linux as well.
It will be interesting to see which way they go.
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But I would be surprised if they did anything but Java or C/C++. They have the widest reach, are well established, and are already known there. As long as it’s cross-platform, I’ll be happy.