Fontforge Dependency (was: Wine Front-End development)

[Robert Shearman]

Kuba Ober wrote:

If fontforge"made a mess", that's not just because it's an extra dependency. 
It's because someone, instead of making the right choice and shipping 
whatever files fontforge is building, shipped only the sources. The right 
thing to do would be to ship the prebuilt stuff at least until "right" 
version of fontforge reaches mainstream. Now we're trying to waste some more 
time by ripping fontforge and creating sfd2ttf (?). That's lunacy! Just ship 
the damn prebuilt files until the time is ripe to take them out. Of course 
the sources should be kept there all the time as well.
 


So if a version of gcc got released that didn't produce correct 
libraries then we should add all of the .so files to the Wine tree? What 
a good idea!

Of course, the fix is to try to add a configure check for the incorrect 
ttf files that fontforge produces, or otherwise a version check, as has 
already been discussed.

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Robert Shearman