On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 15:10, Tomas Frydrych wrote: > [snip wonderful bidi report]
Thank you very much for your work here and for the excellent status report. Right now I'm hesitant to turn on Bidi by default. There have been unfortunate serious breakages related to Bidi in the recent past, and quite frankly, I'm afraid that they might happen again in the near future. The overwhelming majority of our users do not need Bidi capabilities and it seems unfair to penalize them in terms of memory consumption, performance, and potential instability for a feature that they will neither need nor use. The Bidi build has only recieved a fraction of the testing that our Mono-di build has, which makes me a weary of making this change so close to our 1.0 release. Further, Bidi has not been tested on the BeOs or QNX platforms, though this is essentially only an argument against enabling Bidi by default on *only* those platforms. I'm very willing (and happy) to continue distributing and supporting Bidi builds of AbiWord alongside our Mono-di builds. I'd rather not make this the default setting at this time, however. Post 1.0 will be a different story altogether. Best regards, Dom
