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FriBidi was first developed by Dov Grobgeld of the Ivrix project, a few
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releases happened there, up to 0.1.15. This was late 2000.
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Behdad Esfahbod of the FarsiWeb project started reading and hacking FriBidi
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in the same days. As per request of Roozbeh Pournader from the FarsiWeb
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project, FriBidi development was moved to SourceForge (http://www.sf.net/),
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under the same name (http://fribidi.sf.net/).
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Behdad started applying patches in early 2001, and became the new
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maintainer. He first aimed for full compliance of the standard, and then
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applied the GNU Coding Standards. The effort was then released in the
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Iranian New Year celebrations on 2001-03-29 as FriBidi 0.9.0.
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Since then, FriBidi has been quite stable. A few other releases were made,
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to fix bugs, code cleanup, etc which all led to the release of FriBidi
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0.10.4 on 2002-05-19. It turned out to be quite stable, and is shipped by
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several distributions these days (~2003).
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Behdad promised a major redesign of the interface and the code to code, but
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it almost never happened, at least not before Iranian New Years of March
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2004. In the mean time, FriBidi was dubbed as a GNU package by Richard
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Stallman. The first time was in 2002, and he mis-spelled it as "FreeBidi".
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Next time in 2003 he addressed the correct name "FriBidi", but the
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transition to gnu.org (http://www.gnu.org/) never happened, due to long
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down-times of gnu.org due to several administrative problems.
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GNU FriBidi was finally moved to the FreeDesktop project
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(http://www.freedesktop.org), which it lives a peaceful life these days
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(http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/FriBidi). Major cleanup made to the
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build system, and was reimported from scratch in the FreeDesktop CVS. The
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old CVS repository is still available under the "fribidi-sf.net" module.
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You can find more details in the file ChangeLog.old in the GNU FriBidi CVS
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repository.
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