Re: [putty]Re: PuTTY Bidi - final points

["ahmad khalifa" <ahmadkhalifa at hotmail dot com>]

> We have 3 options here then,
> 1. Contact ICU's authors and FSF for clarification on ICU's
>    license (I doubt ICU/IBM was shooting for anything that is
>    NOT fully GPL-compatible - I also thought ICU is being used
>    in GPL projects, no ?).  This might actually get resolved
>    very fast with recent attention to the license changes on
>    Xfree and Apache and would play well with regard to the
>    SCO/IBM lawsuits, etc.  Simon ?
> 2. Find other Bidi code alternatives (do any others exist) ?
> 3. Write our own (which seems rather silly at this stage, but...)
> Simon, how does the patch look so far (ie. with regard to adding
> PuTTY's own shaping, etc) ?
> How should we proceed ?  As noted, we are ready to get Bidi's
> inclusion done and resolved so we can forge ahead with other
> issues (waiting around in limbo is simply painful).  We just
> need to know what to use.

4. we could use fribidi in an external library, that is distributed
  separately. i think that PuTTY's arabic users wont mind DLing
  a .dll file thats a few hundred KBs to enable Bidi...
  that way we wont have license issues, and the Bidi bug can be
  thrown out in a few days... i dont think that porting an external
  library would be that difficult... all u have to do is add a few lines
  about how to enable BIDI in PuTTY's Docs.

btw the shaping code needs some optimization, like moving
mallocs to another place where it gets called once, instead of
on every redraw. and also call it upon Resizing. anyway i'll look
into that if you're OK with how the code is and how it works...

PS: if you're wondering who i am, im ahmad khalifa the one who
wrote the putty_arabic.patch

ak.

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