<span style>Peter, DM, </span><span style>Thanks for your response. </span><span style>I </span><span style>wasn't being critical and I agree. T</span><span style>here are Pros and Cons either way (resource usage and download time being considerations) as you point out.</span><div>
<div><span style><br></span></div><div><span style>I also agree it's ultimately it's up to the repo administrator and the user, to decide for themselves what works best for them. </span><span style>I happen to like having the index included as part of the repo, because I'm not limited by resources, and I don't mind the wait.</span></div>
<div><span style><br></span></div><div><span style></span><span style>Regardless, </span><span style>it is still a</span><span style> m</span><span style>atter of preference (based upon considerations, such as the ones you cite).</span></div>
<div><span style>~A<span></span></span></div><div><div><br>On Wednesday, January 23, 2013, DM Smith wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
On Jan 23, 2013, at 11:02 AM, "Peter von Kaehne" <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'refdoc@gmx.net')">refdoc@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Von: Andrew Thule <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'thulester@gmail.com')">thulester@gmail.com</a>><br>
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>> The nice thing about when<br>
>> repo administrators do this, is when you get a module from that repo, you<br>
>> also automatically get the lucene index.<br>
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> The reason that this is not done are manifold - including that sword and jsword indices are different, that not all platforms have the same lucene/clucene incarnation etc.<br>
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> Most users are better off not to use downloaded indices, but to create indices suitable for their specific frontend.<br>
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To add to what Peter said, this mailing list's archives have extensive discussion on why we don't do this and why we have done it for mobile devices (only PocketSword and AndBible, and specific to them only).<br>
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Also, the transfer time for a lucene index exceeds the time of a recent computer to build them, e.g. my laptop. As a Bible Desktop user, I'd really rather not transfer an index that is unusable by Bible Desktop.<br>
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In Him,<br>
DM<br>
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