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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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  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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