[Fribidi-discuss] Implementing multiple pass (multiplt char width)

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Hi Shachar,

Well, I have some good news too:

Just now I was looking around fribidi, redesigning and
redesigning it again and again in my mind.  What we are going to
do is to release the current STABLE version (0.10.4), with some
small patches, as GNU FriBidi 1.0, Yes!  FriBidi has already 
become a GNU package.  Then Roozbeh and I will work on some 
documentation and moving development to savannah.gnu.org.  After 
that we just maintain the FriBidi 1.0 codebase, and work 
extensively on FriBidi 2.0, with a major redesign.  Fortunately 
we are getting to some consensus on the interaction of bidi, 
line-breaking and joining algorithms in the Unicode bidi list, so 
now we can design the interface to fit much more uses.

So what I suggest is that you work on your own ideas.  We already 
have Omer's additions in HEAD branch too.  Then after working on 
new design, we all port the current codes to the new interface.

Yours,
behdad

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I've had a quick look at the build process we use. I then went on and 
> had a more thorough look. I then continued to build a minimal test case. 
> I have some good news and some bad news.
> 
> The bad news is that the example code I sent all those months ago is not 
> going to be incorporated as is into our build process. No way, no how. 
> Automake is too autonomous in inventing the compile rules. I can 
> recreate those rules myself, but then they won't get updated when 
> automake is. Not what we want.
> 
> The good news is that this can still be done, and will not be too 
> complicated. The idea is this (and a proof of concept patch should 
> follow later this week):
> 
> In Makefile.am, the source files are marked as fribidi8.c fribidi16.c 
> and fribidi32.c, instead of fribidi.c as it is today. I will also add a 
> rule that knows how to generate %32.c from %.c, using a perl preprocessor.
> 
> The change is a simple addition of "#define FRIBIDI_CHAR_WIDTH 8" (or 
> 16, or 32) as the first line of the file.
> 
> Please let me know your opinions and thoughts about this, or I shall 
> really start implementing (really, this time I mean it, truely).
> 
> 			Shachar
> 
> 
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Behdad Esfahbod		17 Azar 1381, 2002 Dec 8 
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