From: ng0 <ng0@pragmatique.xyz>
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: font-build-system
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 20:15:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170511201500.xopertmlrwg4pvue@abyayala> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c637e04d.AEAAKEMQ_EEAAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZFLzW@mailjet.com>
Arun Isaac transcribed 0.6K bytes:
>
> ng0 writes:
>
> > we have 20 - 25 fonts (I didn't really count), and only 2 are using a
> >
> > system* make args
> >
> > in their build phase, every other font just extracts, creates folders
> > and copies the fonts to the folders.
> > This is much repetition which could be avoided by just calling a build
> > system, rather than applying changes to fonts over and over again.
> >
> > It looks like this can be achieved by something as small as the emacs
> > build-system. Would anyone give it a try?
>
> Is anybody working on this? I'd like to give this a shot, if nobody else
> is working on it already.
>
I don't think anyone is working on a font-build-system. But this won't
solve the fc-cache problem as the reply by Mark suggests.
A build system would be good though.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-11 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-05 12:58 font-build-system ng0
2017-02-13 14:59 ` font-build-system Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-11 19:34 ` font-build-system Arun Isaac
2017-05-11 20:15 ` ng0 [this message]
2017-05-11 22:19 ` font-build-system vs fc-cache profile hook Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-13 5:10 ` font-build-system Arun Isaac
[not found] ` <cu7bmqx1gvl.fsf@systemreboot.net>
2017-05-15 16:35 ` font-build-system Arun Isaac
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