Re: Pango for BiDi

[Shachar Shemesh]

Mike Hearn wrote:
To be frank I think that's Debians problem, or to more accurate the
problem of those who insist on using apt-get for everything. If WineHQ
provides high quality tested binaries with ICU included, they can use
that if they want BiDi.
There will *always* be random distros that have packaging policy that
conflicts with Wine, I don't think we should let that dictate our choice
of libraries. If we switch to FriBiDi maybe that fixes the Debian case
but breaks the Mandrake case, or whatever.
thanks -mike
 

Just to sum up the IRC discussion with Mike:
1. I use ICU because it's the best we have at the moment. That doesn't 
revoke my right to hate it. Until I have an alternative (or someone else 
steps forward to do BiDi on Wine), that's what we are using.
2. Eat the strawberries.
3. Never tell amusing stories around geeks. They will either guess the 
punchline or find logic errors in the story.

Full IRC logs are available upon request :-)
            Shachar