Salam, During our latest Core meeting, one of the items on the agenda was Arabeyes' official policy with regard to the bidi algorithm implementation to use. This has been spurred because of the recent discussions on CUPS requirements. 1. Fribidi is the primary bidi lib to be used if license not an issue. 2. miniBidi must quickly comply/conform to the entire standard 3. miniBidi is to remain simple, educational and bleeding-edge. In the case where a particular application/library/etc. has specific requirements that conflict with the use of FriBiDi, Arabeyes is to coordinate with FriBiDi authors and maintainers. It is expected that FriBiDi authors/maintainers will be tasked with the 'persuasion' if necessary. However, Arabeyes will not get in the business of persuading external project to use a particular implementation -- we are in the business of making the application(s) support Arabic. We would make our preference to use FriBiDi clear, but it is the responsibility of FriBiDi to convince external project author(s) to the merits of FriBiDi. Because this could lead to bottle-necks, a deadline would be given to have the external project make a final decision. If during this time, they would still not consider FriBiDi, miniBiDi would automatically be used. One of the reasons this policy is important to be stated explicitly is so it is clear that miniBiDi is _NOT_ meant to compete with FriBiDi. We have seen in the past how projects may have their own special requirements (licensing conflicts, coding conflicts, etc.) and a more flexibly licensed implementation was/is the only solution. P.S. [off-topic] It is also worth noting that FriBiDi's lack of shaping still remains to be a serious short-coming of the library. Regards -- ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://elzubeir.fakkir.net/ | -------------------------------------------------------
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