On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote: > I recommend instead of having bicon and abicon, having bicon.bin and > bicon respectively. I think that would help settle the confusion (and > have seen it done by various other projects).
Well, I'm thinking something different: bicon is something that almost works in all terminals, while abicon is console specific. Moreover, (Alkarouri:) we should deliver bjoining_vu and bconsole_vu too. They are extremely useful. The are cat-like utilities to read Arabic in say gnome-terminal. BTW, they need a better name. Perhaps not for this release. There are also bconsole/vuconsole and bconsole/edconsole that need to be updated. > I personally am not a big fan of the 'abicon' -- it certainly threw me > off. Well, bicon is supposed to be a library for doing Arabic in console. I mean, other programs are welcome to use the joining stuff in bicon as a library. I'm not sure about the names, but better we fix the names from the first release. Maybe "bicontty" is a good name for "abicon", or "bycon" ;). > Also, as far as the keymaps installing in places where specific distro's > dictate -- let me tell ya, it will be a nightmare. I know, I had to deal > with that with Akka. > > My recommendation is to leave that up to package creators.. or have the > script 'detect/ask' what distro it is and selectively install based on > that. Otherwise, every other distro seems to think different locations > are more suitable for keymaps. I only meant to do that in a portable way. Perhaps we can leave it for now, but adding configure parameters for them is what I see a clean solution. Guess there are parameters for that already. RPM invokes ./configure with a myriad of parameters. I will check later, no stopper for now. > Regards > Mohammed Elzubeir --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
