Re: Should font-build-system compile sfd fonts?

[L p R n d n <guix@lprndn.info>]

Hello,

Brendan Tildesley <mail@brendan.scot> writes:

> 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?

Maybe adding an optional phase like #:glib-or-gtk? for meson?
We would get a #sfd-font? argument in the font-build-system.

What do you think?