Re: bicon

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:51:10AM +0000, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > * Initial use of autotools in the project
> > Autotools were used; they are now responsible for fjoining, fconsole
> > and bicon, and working successfully.
> 
> 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)

Behdad, as noted, could you please look over the new code and give your
blessing so that we can kick-off this project and import it officially
onto Arabeyes' CVS (and create a project page, logo, etc, etc); under
GPL license finally :-)

Salam (and thanks Mr. Alkarouri for your continued efforts).

 - Nadim


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