On 7/21/2017 2:01 PM, Giuseppe Cocomazzi wrote: > Hi Brian, hi ports. > >> I think lang/apl is ready to be committed. It just needs a license marker >> tweak (it's just GPLv3+ now) and there's some trailing whitespace, but that >> can be fixed on import. ok for me. >> > Thanks a lot. My first port :) > >> I cleaned up the apl-fonts ports a bit, attached. Giuseppe, do you also want >> to be maintainer of the font/apl-fonts port? > Yes, no problem for me, I will preserve a copy of the fonts on my > homepage just in case the original webpage disappears at some point in > the future. Shall I add a line to $MASTER_SITES?
I don't think that's strictly necessary, but having an extra mirror can't hurt. > Let me know if further actions from me are needed. I think we're good. Have to wait on someone else's ok to import, though. ~Brian > Best, > > > Best, > > On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 7:33 PM, Brian Callahan <bcal...@devio.us> wrote: >> >> On 07/21/17 06:41, Giuseppe Cocomazzi wrote: >>> Alright, I made all the fixes and created a new port >>> for the APL fonts (apl-fonts), as suggested. >>> >>> Find both ports attached. >> >> I think lang/apl is ready to be committed. It just needs a license marker >> tweak (it's just GPLv3+ now) and there's some trailing whitespace, but that >> can be fixed on import. ok for me. >> >> I cleaned up the apl-fonts ports a bit, attached. Giuseppe, do you also want >> to be maintainer of the font/apl-fonts port? >> >> ~Brian >> >> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Brian Callahan <bcal...@devio.us> wrote: >>>> Hi Giuseppe -- >>>> >>>> On 07/20/17 02:48, Giuseppe Cocomazzi wrote: >>>>> Hi ports, >>>>> following Brian's and Ian's suggestions, I updated the port of >>>>> GNU Apl to account for: >>>>> - A default configuration file which disables coloring and enables ^D >>>>> to quit the interpreter; >>>>> - Adrian Smith's standard APL385 font shipped with the package. >>>>> >>>>> All it takes for the special characters to be correctly displayed is a >>>>> UTF-8 LC_CTYPE (/etc/gnu-apl.d/keyboard1.txt should display an alien >>>>> keyboard layout if everything is fine). >>>>> >>>>> Tested on -current from latest snapshot: >>>>> >>>>> OpenBSD wretch.doom.loc 6.1 GENERIC#194 i386 >>>>> >>>>> As soon as the port is integrated in the tree I will communicate my >>>>> patches back to the author of the program for a better OpenBSD support. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for the feedback. >>>> >>>> After some discussion with sthen, it was suggested to make the font its >>>> own >>>> port. >>>> You can make this one have a RUN_DEPENDS on the new font port, as indeed >>>> the >>>> APL interpreter is unusable without the font. >>>> >>>> Also, the V=1.7 variable in the port Makefile can go away. It's only ever >>>> used in the DISTNAME line, so DISTNAME can just become DISTNAME=apl-1.7 >>>> >>>> Also please re-run `make update-plist` as I discovered that it there were >>>> some entries added to the PLIST when I did that. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> ~Brian >>>> >>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Brian Callahan <bcal...@devio.us> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On 7/19/2017 10:09 AM, Ian Darwin wrote: >>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 03:45:30PM +0200, Giuseppe Cocomazzi wrote: >>>>>>>> I asked one of the distributors (Dyalog) of the APL385 font and he >>>>>>>> kindly addressed me to the page of the original Adrian Smith's font, >>>>>>>> where it is explicitly mentioned that the font is in the public >>>>>>>> domain: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> http://www.apl385.com/fonts/index.htm >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The readme for Emacs APL mode, at >>>>>>>>> https://github.com/lokedhs/gnu-apl-mode, >>>>>>>>> suggests to use GNU FreeFont, which is GPL'd. If you can't find >>>>>>>>> documentation >>>>>>>>> that your other font is PD or otherwise licensable, I'd use their >>>>>>>>> "Free" Font. >>>>>>>> It seems that GNU FreeFont is already in the port tree, so we have >>>>>>>> two >>>>>>>> options here: either we add FreeFont as a dependency to the package >>>>>>>> (which is not, technically) or we ship the APL385 font with the >>>>>>>> package, >>>>>>>> or we preserve the distribution as it is and only add a >>>>>>>> 'README.openBSD' >>>>>>>> to address the user to further resources, just like Emacs APL mode >>>>>>>> did. >>>>>>> That's three, actually :-) But given that the 385 font is indeed >>>>>>> explicitly PD I >>>>>>> would probably just include it, unless anyone else wants to weigh in? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> You should probably mention that the font is PD in the license >>>>>>> comment. >>>>>>> >>>>>> Makes sense to me. >>>>> >>>>> >>> > >
