Re: Fribidi 2.0 Status?
Beni Cherniavsky <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.internationalization.fribidi |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Christopher Tremblay wrote: >>-What remains to be done > > Basically, the bidi API should be finished, Arabic joining is > finished, but Arabic shaping remains to be done. And the > command-line tool should be updated. > >>-Is it comming out anytime soon? :o\ > > There has been no demand, so I didn't felt any pressure to finish > it, but I may go and do that later this year. At this point in > time I believe I'm going to provide backwards compatibility to > the 0.x releases, so it's not a big deal. Another option is to > clean up what is in and release it without Arabic shaping. > That's a better idea actually. I may go for that in October. > I, for one, would like to look at your current code (whatever its state). I had some ideas about desired API features so I want to see whether your design misses anything (and I'll contribute patches if it does). Yes, I understand it's unreleased/unstable/whatever; I'm still eager to see it. I think I'm not the only one. I think it would be best if you make your development repository publicly availiable - but a single snapshot would also do the trick.