[FriBidi] Question about symbols & API/ABI compatability

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 03/29/2009 11:43 AM, أحمد المحمودي wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 04:59:31PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> On 03/28/2009 05:21 AM, أحمد المحمودي wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>     Thanks for the help, I got another question: are there any symbols in
>>>     the file I sent you last time, that are *NOT* missing (or are added by
>>>     0.19.x) yet they are actually internal detail ?
>> Can you send me a listing of all the symbols you are seeing in 0.19.x?
> ---end quoted text---
>
>   New symbols in 0.19.x:
>   fribidi_debug_status at Base 0.19.1
>   fribidi_get_bidi_type at Base 0.19.1
>   fribidi_get_bidi_type_name at Base 0.19.1
>   fribidi_get_bidi_types at Base 0.19.1
>   fribidi_get_joining_type at Base 0.19.1
>   fribidi_get_joining_type_name at Base 0.19.1
>   fribidi_get_joining_types at Base 0.19.1
>   fribidi_get_par_direction at Base 0.19.1
>   fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels at Base 0.19.1
>   fribidi_join_arabic at Base 0.19.1
>   fribidi_reorder_line at Base 0.19.1
>   fribidi_shape at Base 0.19.1
>   fribidi_shape_arabic at Base 0.19.1
>   fribidi_shape_mirroring at Base 0.19.1
>   fribidi_unicode_version at Base 0.19.1

These look good.

>   Symbols that still exist from 0.10.9:

>   fribidi_cap_rtl_to_unicode at Base 0.10.9
 >   fribidi_char_set_desc_cap_rtl at Base 0.10.9
 >   fribidi_cp1255_to_unicode_c at Base 0.10.9
 >   fribidi_cp1256_to_unicode_c at Base 0.10.9
 >   fribidi_get_type_internal at Base 0.10.9
 >   fribidi_iso8859_6_to_unicode_c at Base 0.10.9
 >   fribidi_iso8859_8_to_unicode_c at Base 0.10.9
 >   fribidi_unicode_to_cap_rtl at Base 0.10.9
 >   fribidi_unicode_to_charset at Base 0.10.9
 >   fribidi_unicode_to_cp1255_c at Base 0.10.9
 >   fribidi_unicode_to_cp1256_c at Base 0.10.9
 >   fribidi_unicode_to_iso8859_6_c at Base 0.10.9
 >   fribidi_unicode_to_iso8859_8_c at Base 0.10.9
 >   fribidi_unicode_to_utf8 at Base 0.10.9
 >   fribidi_utf8_to_unicode at Base 0.10.9

These are all internal symbols.  The headers for these are not installed. 
When I was writing this code (~2003) I didn't know much about symbol hiding, etc.

Do people think I should go ahead and hide them now?  An alternative would be 
to just leave them there as I don't see them changing.

behdad

>   fribidi_char_set_desc at Base 0.10.9
>   fribidi_char_set_name at Base 0.10.9
>   fribidi_char_set_title at Base 0.10.9
>   fribidi_charset_to_unicode at Base 0.10.9
>   fribidi_get_mirror_char at Base 0.10.9
>   fribidi_get_type at Base 0.10.9
>   fribidi_log2vis at Base 0.10.9
>   fribidi_log2vis_get_embedding_levels at Base 0.10.9
>   fribidi_mirroring_status at Base 0.10.9
>   fribidi_parse_charset at Base 0.10.9
>   fribidi_remove_bidi_marks at Base 0.10.9
>   fribidi_reorder_nsm_status at Base 0.10.9
>   fribidi_set_debug at Base 0.10.9
>   fribidi_set_mirroring at Base 0.10.9
>   fribidi_set_reorder_nsm at Base 0.10.9
>   fribidi_version_info at Base 0.10.9
>