Re: fribidi and shaping arabic characters

On 27 Jan, 2006, at 23:08, kobi zamir wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> Nice.  Do you want to import it in fribidi CVS instead?
>>
>> For a long time I've been thinking about adding, what was it
>> called, SWIG support.  Do you think that can generate the same
>> quality of wrappers?
>
> Nir is actively developing pyfribid now so I leave answering this to 
> him,
> My views are:
> 1. pyfribidi is hand crafted and is much more easy to use than an
> automated bindings.

I don't have any experience with automatic wrappers, but I guess we 
need to so part of it by hand in any case, because we like to have 
simpler API for python users.

> 2. New versions of pyfribidi are out daily, i want it to enter fribidi
> cvs but i think we should wait until it is more stable. Nir what do
> you think ?

Currently pyfribidi is kind of a hack around fribidi, used to solve the 
problems we had now. I don't plan to create a complete biding anytime 
soon :-)

So maybe its better to leave the projects as too separate projects. If 
we plan to do a more complete solution, maybe its better to "sell" both 
in the same web space.

On the other hand, if you think merging the project will save time and 
overhead of running the project site, I'll go for it.

Amit Aronovitch started a complete bindings using ctypes, maybe he will 
like to continue with this. He also have experience with various 
bindings solutions.


Best Regards,

Nir Soffer