[okfn-discuss] v0.4 of Open Shakespeare is Released

Mon Apr 16 15:01:45 UTC 2007

I've put up a full blog post about this here:

http://blog.okfn.org/2007/04/16/v04-of-open-shakespeare-released/

Release notes below.

Regards,

Rufus

## Release Notes

A new version of open shakespeare is out. Get it via the code page:

    <http://www.openshakespeare.org/code/>

### Changelog

   * Annotation of texts (js-based in browser) (ticket:20, ticket:21)
     (<http://www.openshakespeare.org/2007/04/10/annotation-is-working/>)
   * Switch to unicode for internal string handling (resolves ticket:23:
some
     texts breaking the viewer)
   * Add functional tests for the web interface (ticket:11)
   * Substantial improvements to speed of concordance (ticket:22)

(<http://www.openshakespeare.org/2007/01/03/improvements-to-the-concordance/>)
   * Switch to genshi templates from kid
   * Switch to plain WSGI from cherrypy

#### Outstanding Issues

   * Annotation cannot handle long texts because of javascript performance
     issues

### About Open Shakespeare ###

A full open set of Shakespeare's works along with anciallary material, a
variety of tools and a python API.

For more information see the about page:

   <http://www.openshakespeare.org/about/>

Get involved: <http://www.openshakespeare.org/participate/>

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