Hi there ! I sort of changed my mind about not going to buy a n900 (thanks to the developer discount ). So on the worst case (nothing happening related to a Sword based application for maemo 5), I will try to port the current Rapier application and push it to maemo5 repository.
Being lazy (it is supposed to be a vertue for a developer, is it not ?), i would be happy to see Nathan or anybody else pushing some more fresh and "opt"ized packages (clucene,swig,sword and the python bindings) to the repository before i try to do so.
I suggest that nothing is pushed to the devel repository before someone has a full working stack.
To whoever start such a project, let us know the project garage's name, and please use the garage svn (or git) so everybody can play with the latest development branches.