[jsword-devel] Progress update

[Daniel Owens]

I was able to run the nightly build in Windows yesterday using your 
suggested workaround, and the Vietnamese is looking good. Thanks for the 
workaround.

Daniel

DM Smith wrote:
> For JSword we use Lucene to do indexing and searching. Lucene is in  
> the process of releasing their next version, 2.3, and it improves  
> indexing performance tremendously. On WinXP, MacOSX 10.5 and Linux  
> (FC7) I am currently able to index the ESV in 40 - 60 seconds. With  
> the Lucene 2.3, indexing times are in the range of 25-40 seconds, with  
> a net drop in time around 30-35%.
>
> When it comes out, I'll be doing another release that will include:
> 1) Bug fixes. These were found during the translation of BD into  
> Farsi. But the most important will be getting the Windows install to  
> run without a work around.
> 2) Support for Right-to-Left (rotl) languages is complete. (We think)
> 3) Complete translation into Farsi. Start of translation into  
> Vietnamese, Chinese, German and Turkish.
> 4) Lucene 2.3, noted above.
> 5) Ability to set font on a per language or book basis.
>
> If you have further translation work or other changes that you want  
> out with this release please get it in. (I still have a few pending  
> patches that have been submitted to apply)
>
> If anyone is interested, I can post the lucene 2.3 release candidate  
> jars for testing
>
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