Re: Add Microsoft Cascadia Code font?

[Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com>]

Hi Leo,

Understood, and this level of scrutiny is actually an encouraging sign that Guix has standards! 😄

I am happy enough to have it this way for my personal use for now.  Later, when I have more time, let me revisit.   

I have not experimented with this yet but I also understand I can create a separate repository as well.   Maybe that will also do😄

Regards,
Yasu

> On Jan 10, 2021, at 19:38, Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> wrote:
> 
> Hi Yasu,
> 
> I don't think it'll be so simple.  It appears, that nerd-fonts already
> includes – or at least has the potential to include – some non-free
> glyphs, which would in turn then be part of Cascadia.  An instance
> would be pomicons [1], which are licensed as CC BY-NC-ND.  A reviewer
> would first have to verify, that Cascadia is indeed wholly covered
> under the OFL or at least under a set of free licenses.
> 
> Yes, it sucks having to put that much effort into packaging a font, but
> if you just want to have a workable font for programming, there are
> probably better solutions than Cascadia, some of which are already
> packaged in Guix – e.g. font-fira-code.
> 
> Regards,
> Leo
> 
> [1] https://github.com/gabrielelana/pomicons
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 10.01.2021, 19:11 +0900 schrieb Yasuaki Kudo:
>> Thank you for your comments!
>> 
>> Because I don't have a lot of time, is it ok to just re-format the
>> original submission, get it committed with the comment that the
>> package needs to be compiled rather than copied, when someone (or I)
>> wants to so properly?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Yasu
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 10, 2021, at 18:16, Leo Prikler <
>>> leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello Vincent,
>>> 
>>> there is no .tar of the fonts however, that's a source tarball
>>> generated by github.  To be fair, one should probably build this
>>> font
>>> (and other fonts) from source instead.  In particular, we might
>>> want to
>>> package nerd-fonts[1] first, since Cascadia appears to be an
>>> iteration
>>> of it.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Leo
>>> 
>>> [1] https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
>>> 
>>> 
>