[poppler] Creating a Beta 3

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimecres, 28 de novembre de 2012, a les 10:58:23, alex bodnaru va escriure:
> hey albert, friends,

Hi

> you were right. i've reshaped the patch to be smaller and with next to no
> api polution. c++ vs c ;) .
> 
> there's no api stuff i'd plan to later remove. on the contrary, i plan to
> add functionality, that will also use the reordering mode parameter of
> TextPage.

Can you comment what this parameter is used for? Also what happens with the 
icu vs freebidi stuff? How will it work, do we really need to support both?

> i've unified the patches for #55977 and #2981, so trying to apply the older
> patch for #2981 will fail and be not needed.
> 
> however #2981 is more sexy then #55977 and #55979, these last ones are at
> the foundation of text handling support, so please apply both my patches
> for these.

I'm a bit confused here, first you say #2981 will fail but then you say that 
both patches should be applied? or is the both applying to #55979?

Cheers,
  Albert

P.S: Please in the future don't do what you just did, if you answer both here 
and in the bug following the discussion is hard

> 
> #55979 shows and important regression to functionality once was better. i
> hope my later work on logical text selection would even solve the problem
> wrongly solved, which lead to #55979.
> but #55979 is a solution to last, since poppler_page_get_text (PopplerPage
> *page) has, as you see, no rectangle argument. so no need for rectangle
> handling.
> 
> thanks in advance,
> alex
> 
> On 11/26/2012 01:53 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Dissabte, 24 de novembre de 2012, a les 10:04:38, alex bodnaru va 
escriure:
> >> hello friends,
> >> 
> >> thumbs up for the progress.
> >> 
> >> however #2981 is more sexy, #55977 resolves a real design bug in a too
> >> superficial attempt to resolve visual to logical text conversion.
> > 
> > Are you planning to answer my questions to #55977?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Albert
> >> 
> >> sorry to lobby my own reports and patches (i just know them better), but
> >> #55979 fixes an even more annoying bug, with no workaround for the glib
> >> api
> >> users. python users rely on glib too.
> >> 
> >> thanks in advance,
> >> alex
> >> 
> >> On 11/23/2012 07:39 AM, Adam Reichold wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>> 
> >>> Not sure if this question is intended for everybody on the list or
> >>> only the developers, but I'll just assume it's for everyone:
> >>> 
> >>> Looking at the feature list and reading the bug tracker, I'd say that
> >>> thread-safety needs to be rethought. Maybe one could make this a
> >>> priority for the next release cycle, trying to implement the long-term
> >>> solution of removing PDFDoc::getXRef and better distributing the
> >>> workload, maybe under Thomas' and/or Albert's supervision. (I would be
> >>> happy to help as much as I can, but I am not very knowledgeable about
> >>> Poppler's internals yet.)
> >>> 
> >>> Still, I would argue for a third beta since the RTL stuff seems almost
> >>> like a bug and less like a missing feature and probably affects a lot
> >>> of people. (I would also include #2981 here, which depends on #55977.)
> >>> 
> >>> Best regards, Adam.
> >>> 
> >>> Am 23.11.2012 00:51, schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> >>>> Hi guys, if you look at
> >>>> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/poppler you'll see that there
> >>>> are 5 features listed for 0.22 and that I just released 0.21.2 that
> >>>> was supposed to be the last release with new features.
> >>>> 
> >>>> I don't think we'll be getting all 5 in, but if we create a new
> >>>> Beta 3 with let's say 1 week more of time maybe we can get 1 or 2
> >>>> more in.
> >>>> 
> >>>> What do you think?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Cheers, Albert _______________________________________________
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