Re: fribidi question

["Chahine M. Hamila" <mch at chaham dot com>]

Sorry for the late reply, I can't spend much time on computers these days...
> The current api is not complete, the user cannot be conformant about 
> line breaking and reordering after line breaks, a new api is needed,
You mean, the current implementation is not fully conformant? I don't remember
if UAX#9 says something about line breaks, but what is it exactly about?
>  
> I'm trying to design it, also we are to port fribidi to some portable 
> devices, for that we need to redesign the api from scratch too, to 
> have a FriBidiEnv type that holds all users settings, each function 
> then should get FriBidiEnv *env as its first parameter.
Ok but plz preserve backward compatibility;)
 
 
> I had a look, I will make deb packages as soon as I find out how, and 
> can you please tell me why the lib name is libfribidi0 and just not 
> libfribidi? I have seen this '0' in mandrake rpms too.
The 9 indicates a major. That's for making it possible for different incompatible
major versions of libraries to coexist as packages for software that might
require one version or another. Say, you have a piece which requires fribidi<0.10,
it will be libfribidi0, and another one that requires a version >=0.10
that could be named, say, libfribidi010... Both would be installed without
conflict to satisfy the dependencies.
 
 
> And about RPMs, don't worry about them, we are going to release RPMs 
> with each version too, 0.10.1 as a bugfix of 0.10.0 will be released 
> today or tommorow.

Fine, I think I'm going to switch soon anyway. I'm going to study that with the Akka package creators.
Thanks for the answer...
Salaam,
Chahine