On 30 November 2015 at 11:28, René J.V. <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Think for example of a port that is just a collection of fonts without
>>a standalone application, how would you install that and then tell
>>your regular Cocoa apps about the fonts?

> There's no need to do that; the system does. In my experience (which stops at 
> 10.9), copying a supported font into one of the font directories makes it 
> available instantaneously to newly started applications (and IIRC even to 
> currently running applications).

My example was about installing fonts somewhere in $prefix/share/$name
and then let Cocoa apps acknowledge them.

Cocoa is smart enough to reflect changes to /Library/Fonts (and
related) on the fly, I see Font Book displaying and removing fonts if
I move their files in and out the font directory.


-- 
Andrea
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