On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:51:10AM +0000, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote: > Salaam, > > The first alpha of bicon is live. > You can download the file http://www.geocities.com/malkarouri/bicon.tar.gz > ,where you will find the 0.01 version of bicon. > Actually this is not a release, but te current working code. Cool. Try to put a date on those things (since it looks like you will be sending out several of them ;) And oh man, _please_ try to make things untar into a dir instead of dumping things into my pwd! Now look at this mess I have to clean up ;) > What is already done > -------------------- > * Problem of license solved > The offending code was replaced with code taken from the Python library, which > is GPL compatible. It as been checked. Excellent ;) > > * Initial use of autotools in the project > Autotools were used; they are now responsible for fjoining, fconsole and bicon, > and working successfully. Let's see now.. Not for me ;) what autotools versions specifically? > > What should be done now > ----------------------- > * We need CVS for it Certainly, with licensing issue resolved, no reason to keep you putting them up for download in the middle of nowhere (geocities) ;) > * Somebody use a proper bootstrap instead of kbootstrap > * I already made an arab.kmap.gz. It should be corrected. And we need an arabic > font. I believe the font that comes with it is sufficient for Arabic (I have tested it some time back). If not, I recall you showing me something on RH's console (in a University of Khartoum computer lab) where it had Arabic fonts (something about non-joining, etc.). So, where are those fonts? The reason being, Akka's fonts format is obsolete and I have no idea what I can open them up with to port them to a new format. > > [..] > What I gather is that we can now put it on CVS. However, before an intial alpha release, after Behdad's blessing, we need to: 0. Fix up autotools thing (or rather, fine-tune) 1. Remove bash-ism 2. Update fonts (if those are really insufficient -- otherwise rename them to something more meaningful) 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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