Ha, I was wondering how long it would take for someone to notice :-) I just started porting Polyglossia to LuaTeX. I didn't have time to do much yet, but I expect it's going to be a matter of days till all the gloss files work. For the moment, all the languages relying on XeTeX's inter-character token mechanism will fail, but I know how to implement it in LuaTeX. It has been discussed several times already and I don't expect there will be major problems; although of course it will be experimental at first.
What's important to understand, though, is that this does not address the underlying issues: LuaTeX still lacks a full OpenType shaping engine, so that won't do anything for Indic scripts, scripts from South-East Asia, Old Korean, nor other "complex" writing systems. Arabic should work fine, but I'm not even sure about Syriac, for example. As for the discussion at hand, I have no intention to participate in it -- although I'm afraid I'm going to be dragged into it. This kind of talk is one of the most demotivating phenomena in open source development, or in any volunteer community, for that matter. Having to go over hundreds and hundreds of emails in a couple of days, few of which seem to focus on concrete issues (when they're not unmitigated drivel), just drains any person's enthusiasm and energy -- not to mention time. As Simon Spiegel asked what the reason was for the seemingly little progress in the XeTeX world in the past couple of years, I can answer for my part: this is it. This kind of endless threads on mailing-lists is the main organic reason why I don't invest more time in development, as far as I'm concerned. And I'm sure this is the case for other core developers too. Arthur -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex