RE: putty can shape now..

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- ahmad khalifa <ahmadkhalifa at hotmail dot com> wrote:
> >I think at this point you need to start populating Arabeyes' CVS.  With
> >M.Elzubeir's help we moved the files that Kamal was working on into a
> >separate dir (putty-experimental) that will be removed unless someone
> >claims a need for 'em and I've already created a 'putty' dir.
> >
> >   http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/projects/external/putty/
> >
> >What we need to put there is the following,
> >
> >  1. A README file akin to what is in the vim dir.
> >
> >       http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/projects/external/vim/
> >
> >     A brief intro and a brief plan, etc.
> 
> i think u mean arabic.txt in vim/runtime/docs/ right...? would be nice
> if i can put my name in a README file :))))

No, I think you misunderstood what I'm saying.

> PuTTy already has a README. so we provide an arabic.txt...
> btw PuTTy's binaries are distributed as 1 file, which is the binary 
> executable only... any README would only accompany the source...

I didn't mean this will affect or reflect upon PuTTY's distribution.
The intent is for us (Arabeyes) to keep things in order until such
time that PuTTY accepts our work.  Ahmad, do please subscribe to the
'cvs' mailing-list so you can be privy to what is taking shape on our
CVS while your account gets setup.

I will be adding 2 place-holder files on Arabeyes' PuTTY directory in
CVS to show you'all the ropes,

  http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/projects/external/putty/

> >  2. A patch file of the work you guys have done so far against PuTTY's
> >     source code, ie.
> >
> >       $ diff -u putty_code.c.orig putty_code.c >> arabic_putty.patch
> 
> will work on that...
> 
> is there a way i can do a diff of 2 files and generate 1 patch..?
> ex. diff -u putty1.c putty1new.c putty2.c putty2new.c >> putty.patch

Of course,

 $ diff -u putty1.c.orig  putty1.c >  arabic_putty.patch
 $ diff -u putty2.c.orig  putty2.c >> arabic_putty.patch
   etc

In other words, simply append to the file.

> >Sameer's code which was posted on the list,
> >
> >   http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/developer/2003/October/msg00011.html
> >
> >is a much better way to go (I'll add his code to Arabeyes CVS for safe
> >keeping as it was referred to a number of times already).
> 
> im about to kill my self... y didnt u say so earlier... i've been asking 
> about shaping since i got here, and no one helped (some people even
> critisized on the general list), but now, after i used your code, u say
> its bad, and here use this one...!!!!!!! it'd take anyone 10 minutes to 
> explain it on irc...

I wasn't on my PC to answer, plus the plan didn't call for shaping to be
added just yet.  As for why others didn't reply, I leave that to their
conscious.

BTW: easy on the dramatics.

> do u think we really need to remove your code and use the one u 
> mentioned..???

I'd say yes, but we need to get the code that simply disables the shaping
into CVS first and touch base with simon before proceeding on the shaping
front and bidi.

Salam.

 - Nadim

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