[FriBidi] Fribidi 2.0 Status?

Baruch Even baruch at ev-en.org
Wed Aug 31 03:42:01 PDT 2005


Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Baruch Even wrote:
> 
> 
>>Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>
>>>>-Is it comming out anytime soon? :o\
>>>
>>>
>>>There has been no demand, so I didn't felt any pressure to finish
>>>it, but I may go and do that later this year.  At this point in
>>>time I believe I'm going to provide backwards compatibility to
>>>the 0.x releases, so it's not a big deal.  Another option is to
>>>clean up what is in and release it without Arabic shaping.
>>>That's a better idea actually.  I may go for that in October.
>>
>>When you do release it, can you please make sure to set a SO for the
>>library to make transitions easier/possible.
>>
>>It would help to be able to have the old and the new libraries installed
>> at the same time.
> 
> 
> That has been the plan.  BTW, what if it's going to be backwards
> compatible?  Doesn't SO number make it hard to upgrade?

I don't remember the shared library rules, but there is a way to handle
this as well.

Need to read a guide to shared libraries, I never done them before to
really delve into it for all the details.

Baruch


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