Thanks Roger for the update, > From: Roger So <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 05:28:46PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > > The problem of IIIMF is --- as far as I tested --- that it is > > not easily compiled or very stable.
Right, especially due to the XIM API compatibility support and XIM protocol compatibility support, some configurations are needed, and because of this and probably the combination we have not tested, such as the Xlib-I18N dynamic loadable module ABI change in XFree86 upon intergration from X11R6.6, which we did not expected, we encountered a couple of problems. Juliusz also advised me on documentation improvement. Current doc is not easy to grasp the information in the well structured form, but just give an impression on its complexity. I agree with Juliusz that IIIMF needs more structured docs, and as Tomohiro pointed out, the ease-of-compile issue can be resolved if a better build and configuration doc is available, in addition to binary packages. > > do you have any plans to provide easy-to-test .rpm and .deb > > packages of IIIMF- related softwares which might make users and > > developers become interested in IIIMF, want to study it, and want > > to develop IIIMF softwares? You are right. We should have them ready whenever the new release or major patches out, At this moment, some of them are randomly located at several sites. Roger So knows best where to fetch for the IIIMF .deb packages, since he builds them, Mike Fabian made RPMs for SuSE/United Linux available from his home page on suse.de/unitedlinux.com, Yu Shao made RPMs for Redhat available from his home page on redhat.com. I will try to have those information consolidated and available on www.openi18n.org/IIIMF soon, if it takes us to lineup the binary packages on site. As Roger already reported, we do not have the packages for release 11.1 yet, which came out this week, nor even release 11.0. As far as I know of, all of the rpm/deb packages listed above are based on release 10. > As for .deb, it's my fault -- I have ITP'd the whole IM-SDK for over > half a year now, but I have yet only managed to upload an old version > (release 10) to experimental. > > I'm busy trying out release 11.1 (revision 1279), which just came out > this week. Hopefully I'll upload it to unstable before Easter. Thanks! It would a great help! Hideki -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],OpenI18N.org,li18nux.org,unicode.org,sun.com} Chair, OpenI18N/Open Internationalization Initiative, http://www.OpenI18N.org Architect/Sr. Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc, USA eFAX: 509-693-8356 -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
