Re: Akka Open Issues & Todos

[Muhammad Alkarouri <malkarouri at yahoo dot co dot uk>]

I am now trying to check the Akka problems. I am
having a look at it currently (in my laptop, the first
computer I ever owned, appropriately using Fedora Core
1). I am trying to reread it and get another stab at
the code. If unable to do any improvements, I will
submit a patch to make Akka work with perl 5.8.1 on
Sunday.
I will not target a more portable code though, as my
experience of non-Linux, non-Windows programming is
rather weak. I will try to make it modular, for any
one to do the porting, though.
I will be thankful if anyone can provide me with the
farsi code, or any idea about the best way things
should proceed. Elzubeir? Samy?


 --- Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote: > ---
Muhammad Alkarouri <malkarouri at yahoo dot co dot uk>
> wrote:
> > > >  - Akka
> > > >    + Need a complete rewrite of current
> project
> > > >    + Need to reduce dependencies and code
> bloat
> > > >    + Need to make it more portable (not only
> linux-centric)
> > > >    + Need to look into the 'farsi' application
> as a possible
> > > >      replacement
> >
> > > + Need to make it use configure (autoconf) if
> not
> > > already use, can any one say for sure.
> > > + Need to consider endianess and word size (that
> is:
> > > don't presupposing 32bit x86)
> > 
> > I made a patch but didn't submit it. Akka is
> currently what
> > I am trying on.  What is the farsi application
> btw, any link?
> 
> Unfortunately I don't have one handy.  I know for a
> fact that
> Behdad wrote it (he's CC'ed) and that both Samy and
> Elzubeir
> looked into it and had made some decisions on how to
> proceed.
> Why things didn't progress is beyond me as I believe
> they
> really made an effort on this front.  Here is a
> broken link
> to the application mentioned,
> 
>  
>
http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/developer/2002/January/msg00046.html
> 
> The name 'Farsi' is rather lacking in capturing a
> unique status
> for this application - a search reveals a heap of
> non-related
> issues (as would any search on a general global
> language).
> Behdad's page doesn't seem to mention it either (or
> maybe I
> missed it),
> 
>   http://behdad.org
> 
> Let's hope one of the three mentioned people above
> replies to
> get the ball rolling again.  I heard very good
> things about the
> 'farsi' (please, lets have a different more
> enveloping name)
> for this application.
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
> 
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Muhammad Alkarouri
MSc. Telecommunication and Information Systems
RHCE

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