Re: [Indic-computing-devel] X Test Suite failures in NCST IndiX

[Tapan S. P. <ta...@ya...>]

> As I suggested earlier, these issues would go away, if we created
> Xutf8DrawString and brand new X protocol requests and then have a
> separate Xlib, that aliases Xutf8DrawString to XDrawString.
> 
> Now, all the tests would pass, because we leave the normal code path
> unchanged. People wanting to use Indic stuff would just do:
> 
> LD_PRELOAD=/usr/X11R6/indic/lib/libX11.so ./mozilla
> 
> This solution wouldn't require any changes to existing applications. 
> 
> If everyone is happy with this solution, we could start working on it,
> as soon as Keyur has the code up in sourceforge.
> 
> I think indiX is great technology - but it needs to reach common
> people. For that, we need to get the code into leading Linux/BSD 
> distributions.

I agree.  Keyur, is there any progress on getting some your code and/or
ideas introduced as patches or branches into the XFree86 tree?

-- Tapan