Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FriBidi is LGPLed, which means you can easily link to it without any > headache. That's what xterm already does! Yes, xterm has bidi > extensions that uses FriBidi. So you cannot include code from > FriBidi in PuTTY, and I'm happy you can't :). You link to it. > There is some work on a DLL version of FriBidi already in CVS. If > that does not do the job, have a look on AbiWord sources. I would > be happy to distribute the fribidi-0.10.4.dll on the official site.
I'm not convinced that a DLL solution is the right thing for PuTTY. One of PuTTY's major good points is its ease of installation - _everything_ is in a single self-contained binary. If people start having to get hold of a DLL from another website in order to make it work, I think that would be beginning to drift away from the self- contained philosophy. It would be _totally_ unacceptable if non-Arabic-speaking users still needed to have the fribidi DLL before PuTTY would work; at the very least the functionality should degrade gracefully in the absence of the library. More importantly, a DLL solution is tying the functionality to Windows again - if fribidi is going to be used, then it should be usable on all platforms. Cheers, Simon -- Simon Tatham "My heart bleeds. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (That's how it works.)" -- Gareth Taylor _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
