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Re: Bidi support for Linux
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about "Re: Bidi support for Linux":
> Ok, pointers, I'll be happy to share pointers with you..
>
> First, you're coming at some "odd" timing - QT 3.0 which have bidi support
> will come out soon as an official beta (snapshots are available on their
> FTP). However, it will take at least 12-18 months until you'll see KDE uses
> QT-3.0 since it's not entirely backward binary compatible (it's around %70 if
> I'm not mistaken), so the KDE team won't use it for KDE 2.x versions at all
> and it will take time until you'll see KDE 3.0 (and that KDE will be probably
> mostly incompatible with KDE 2.x)
>
> So, I see it as a "vital" - we need some bidi support which needs to be
> back-ported from QT 3 to QT 2.x. - is this going to be hard? not much. The
> rich widgets of QT 3 have been back ported to KDE 2.2 in 2 days.
You put a lot on emphasis on the "prediction" that even when QT 3 comes
out it will take 12-18 months to use it (and similarly for Gtk). Why is
that? Why can't the current KDE be patched to work with QT-3.0 (instead
of waiting for some vaporware KDE release), and then some distribution
(maybe even a special Hebrew distribution) will include this KDE?
In the past, a new release of a library took ages to propegate, until
everybody compiled it, and worse - recompiled all the stuff in their system
to use it. But now, with Linux distributions which include everything
precompiled, you could upgrade your entire system to use QT 3 (or whatever)
in 10 minutes.
P.S. a propos vaporware, where is Redhat 7.1?? I've been hearing rumors
about it for 3 days, and yesterday a "7.1" directory popped up on Redhat's
servers (unreadable). But no "respectable" site wrote anythign about this.
Does anybody know if it's scheduled for today, or what?
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