Re: BiCon status ?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 05:28, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> > Sure, that is all understandable - but could we at least have a 0.1
> > release.  BiCon has been in alpha-2 for approx 3 months.  Squashing
> > bugs and getting a bit more development going might be helped by
> > having a proper release (it will raise awareness of the package's
> > existence outside of our immediate circle).
>
> Not any publicity is good publicity. At least I believe so in this case.

Good to hear someone sharing my opinion here!

> > Do please consider simply taking what is there now and folding
> > that into a 0.1 release - I can most certainly help with the
> > release process if so desired.
>
> Currently there is not a single byte of code that differs from last
> version. If anybody has some code that is not submitted to cvs please do
> so.
> Behdad can you please confirm if you have something standing. Probably
> not, as you are still engaged with fribidi and other bidi issues.

I don't have anything do to with BiCon soon.  The project is just
a hack in my opinion, and it's almost all we can get with this
method.  In the future after I released GNU FriBidi, we may need
to make a release to reflect the new FriBidi API, but right now,
I don't see any reason for a release.  More importantly, the last
release we did was not called alpha at all by the maintainers,
but Arabeyes people.

It's as easy as diffing the release with CVS and see if there's
anything worth a new release or not.

> If no new submissions arrive, I will update the NEWS, TODO and other
> relevant files, and tag BiCon for release Sunday (the day after
> tomorrow).
>
> And yes, I will note any known bugs in the files.
>
> 2nd time I am not convinced of a release though. Should I fork it?
> (kidding)
>
> Salam,
> Muhammad Alkarouri

--behdad
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