“This update uses a completely different database format for all resources.
On the one hand, the new version has some excellent features, as Rick Meyers catalogues in the release notes: And while there is work going on to convert the old format modules to the new, that’s a lot of work and very few hands. No, the problem is with the fourteen hundred user- created modules like those collected at e-Sword Users dot org. This is not a problem with “official” e-Sword modules found at e-Sword dot net and eStudy Source dot com, because Rick Meyers has already switched those over. Well, more accurately, all add-on modules need to be updated to the new database format. “all the current modules are useless in the new version”. Specifically, to quote Vaughn Jacobs of the excellent e-Sword Users dot org: Thus Rick Meyers, the originator of e-Sword, has changed the database underneath e-Sword with the brand-new e-Sword version 9.0.1.Īs the title of this post suggests, a bump while turning onto a new road. Now at the end of April, 2009, a major change has come to e-Sword as the database engine behind the software (Access/Jet) has finally lost Microsoft support. Since then, it has gone on to some nine million downloads and worldwide use, including an ever-increasing demand for multiple language interfaces and support for the apocrypha/deuterocanonicals, as Christians of all nationalities and traditions have come to use the software for personal bible study. E-sword 1.o was released almost exactly nine years ago.
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