On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Anmar Oueja wrote: > Hello Behdad: > > I am very glad you are finally doing the shaping patch. I have been > jumping through hoops and all trying to constantly explain the need for > seperate shaping code in addition to Fribidi. > > Thanks for getting back on it and getting it done. can you commit to a > certain date as I need to know so I can coordinate that with the debian > installer people ? if you can't how about a week of june ?
I will finish this week. > What impact the shaping code will have on projects that use fribidi and > implement their own shaping code ? Well, I'm not quite sure yet. I like to turn shaping on by default, so they probably find their shaping code redundant. But I may simply deprecate the old interface and leave it intact. > Let us have that discussion so people are aware of the changes to fribidi. Discussions from my side will be done on [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. Anyone interested is welcome to subscribe right now. The list is very very low traffic. behdad > Thanks > > Anmar > Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm completely against this patch which imports Arabic specific > > code into the mplayer code base. The functionality is going to > > be implemented in GNU FriBidi instead, and that's the place it > > belongs too. > > > > The GNU FriBidi with Arabic Joining/Shaping support will be > > released this month. If you don't buy my promise on the release > > time, go on and add shaping support to FriBidi, but not mplayer > > please. > > > > > > Behdad Esfahbod > > GNU FriBidi maintainer > _______________________________________________ > Developer mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer > > --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
