Hello Daniel, Three years ago, I developed an Android application which does the same thing [1].
I hoped to get more volunteers to polish and improve it, however there was very little interest in it. Nevertheless, it was a good way to tell the world that yes, I am an Android developer. I got other projects thanks to it (such as [2]). So I suggest that you release your application but without expecting anything from it beyond being a showcase of your software development skills. While you are it, I strongly urge you to split off the part of the code, which deals with Hebrew terminals, and make it a library that people can take and use in their own projects. Maybe you'll be able to contribute to terminfo/ncurses projects. --- Omer [1] https://github.com/Hamakor/teuria [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.heliconbooks.epub.epubreader On Fri, 2015-08-21 at 01:24 +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > I've got here a desktop app that quizzes the user with questions from <מבחן התיאוריה (the one people take when they learn driving). It's > basically a self-test/study app, using the questionset from the > Ministry's web site. (They publish questionsets in six languages, > I only tried the Hebrew set.) > > By "app" I mean a python script that prints questions to stdout, reads > answers from stdin, and displays images by invoking display(1) [a > minimal image viewer from imagemagick]. It doesn't have a GUI (beyond > the image displayer) since my target audience didn't need one. > > I can't release it as-is because $LEGAL_REASONS, but I could clean it up > to make it releaseable. Before I spend too much time on that, is that > something anybody would be interested in? > > [feel free to reply offlist] > > Cheers, > > Daniel > > P.S. It wasn't fun to get Hebrew to print correctly on all terminals: > there are differently-behaving terminals that use the same value of > $TERM (undermining terminfo-based solutions). I ended up using > $WINDOWID to get the terminal emulator's argv[0], and hardcoding > exceptions based on that. That's so 1990... -- QA People of Curse. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
