Re: start of SIRAGI project

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> That's exactly the point.  Just use libtiff, libpng, and libjpg
> and you have supported all formats that matter.  Having libtiff
> files in your source code just makes it look bigger than it
> really is.

I cannot judge the developer here for why he made certain decisions but 
this seems to make sense to me (use pre-existing libraries and link to 
them instead).

>
> [..]
>
> So, please design your's with multiscript support in mind.

I think this is the crux of the matter. The mistake we often make (not 
always) is that we end up doing Arabic solutions, _because_ other 
applications are not i18n'ized enough. Yet, we do the same thing the 
original authors did -- stick to their own cultures and not think of the 
rest of the world.

I don't know about SIRAGI itself, but I can say that in the case of 
Duali, the most likely conclusion for it _will_ be integration into 
other mainstream applications.

Behdad, need I remind you that it took OVER A YEAR for VIM's author to 
incorporate the Arabic patches? We can't just sit around waiting for 
mainstream developers to integrate our work and neither do we want to 
start forks unless we feel that the maintainers have no intentions of 
doing anything about it. After all, the chances of the success of a fork 
is mostly not very high.

Enough said, let's get back to work. Tarik ,if you can please expand on 
your TODO list so others who are interested can pitch in work, it would 
be great.

Regards,
Mohammed Elzubeir