From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brendan Tildesley Subject: Should font-build-system compile sfd fonts? Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 17:40:48 +1000 Message-ID: <425a9e54-ed64-fa48-cf9c-f503439af3e7@brendan.scot> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47045) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMSoe-0002Uh-7x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 May 2019 03:41:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMSod-000285-8I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 May 2019 03:41:08 -0400 Received: from mx2.mailbox.org ([80.241.60.215]:52112) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMSod-00026y-1C for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 May 2019 03:41:07 -0400 Received: from smtp2.mailbox.org (smtp2.mailbox.org [IPv6:2001:67c:2050:105:465:1:2:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.mailbox.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F068A01A0 for ; Fri, 3 May 2019 09:41:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp2.mailbox.org ([80.241.60.241]) by spamfilter01.heinlein-hosting.de (spamfilter01.heinlein-hosting.de [80.241.56.115]) (amavisd-new, port 10030) with ESMTP id c_yIN6ybsXy9 for ; Fri, 3 May 2019 09:40:54 +0200 (CEST) Content-Language: en-AU List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel I'm calling for anyone's opinion on this. Currently there are a few fonts which more-or-less copy-paste the same code for compiling sfd files in to ttf and otf, which requires fontforge. I wish to add another font, but didn't want to add to this duplication. Most fonts don't require it, but it wouldn't be harmful, apart from dragging in fontforge, would adding a 'build phase that does this to font-build-system be reasonable. I'm not actually sure how to add a required native-input to a build system. Or is there a better idea? Making a whole new sfd-font-build-system, or defining a build-sdf-fonts symbol that could be added with modify-phases and adding fontforge to native-inputs?