On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 08:39:40AM +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: > At the AtypI talk, Adobe indicated that this release is still rough and > does not comes "batteries included". > > It's a major milestone and will likely to be tremendously useful but > it's not quite ready yet. > The tree structure, paths and the internal libraries are not likely to > be made with all the Debian policy and best practises in mind or widely > tested either. > One issue is actually getting it to use the system python properly. > > I'm looking into it as well over the next few days. I put my current work in [0]. Beside system python issue, we also miss some required modules likes FontTools v2.5, fontMath-ufo3, robofab-utf3k, defcon-utf3, mutatorMath. We might also need to package them as well. > Can I recommend that we concentrate on helping getting it to run > properly on Debian via friendly upstream patches / pull requests > instead of just maintaining a Debian-specific fork? I agree. I will see if it is possible to use standard build system like cmake, pip, etc so that we can package it easier. [0] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-fonts/afdko.git -- ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) <czchen@gmail.com> http://czchen.info/ Key fingerprint = EC9F 905D 866D BE46 A896 C827 BE0C 9242 03F4 552D
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature