Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 01:49:54 +0330 (IRST) From: falaki@ce.sharif.edu To: "Mark Linimon" <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Porter Question. Message-ID: <51815.194.225.42.30.1103494794.squirrel@ce.sharif.edu>
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> A guess would be that at least 10 should move. The number is surely beyond 10. > Would you mind listing the existing ones and give us an idea of the proposed new ones? It would be more insightful to know that there is a government sponsored project called FarsiLinux (http://www.farsilinux.org) which is trying to provide as all the essential Persian tools in Linux so that the vast use of MS products could be stopped before Iran joins WTO. Any way lets list some of the most important ones: 1. FarsiTeX: An independent work by Dr. Ghodsi in Sharif University, www.farsitex.org 2. FarsiKDE: An independent project aiming at Localizing KDE. A port already exists 3. Jalili: A Persian Calender. 4. Standard Persian Fonts: (http://www.farsiweb.info/wiki/Products/PersianFonts) 5. FarsiXterm. 6. Fribidi (This is already embedded in GNOME and works properly in GNOME under FreeBSD, I just wanted to name it!), www.freedesktop.org has good information. Interesting to know is that Fribidi is sponsored by Iran the FarsiLinux project. 7. Farsi Tools. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/farsitools/) 8. Locale Information for Farsi. 9. GNU miscfiles: (http://www.farsiweb.info/wiki/Main/Products ) There are many ongoing projects. Most of them will result in patches to the main source tree but some patches would not be accepted thus a port may seem useful: 1. Farsi support in Postgrsql. 2. Farsi support in Mozilla. 3. Omega: Multilingual Typesetting system. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/omega1/) 4. GNU C Library Persian Support: (http://www.farsiweb.info/wiki/Main/Products ) 5. GNOME Persian Support: (http://www.farsiweb.info/wiki/Main/Products ) Every month or few monthes some projects are being initiated. Mohammad H. Falaki.
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