Re: FontAnvil 0.1

On 3/6/14, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> We have been adding many dependencies to make code simpler and easier
> to maintain, since the old codebase had a lot of IFDEF stuff
> splattered all over the shop. This also makes the GUI experience
> better, as its more consistent.

This is one of those things thats sounds like a good idea but in
practice, it turns out to be awful. If the New Linux crowd had kept in
spirit with the original developers, it would be great.

But nowadays, New Loonix people break whatever they touch. What they
don't break, they ruin. For example, gtk, to gtk2, to gtk3 ... a slide
down the porcelain bowl into the murky waters of gcc and "It's open
source ! If you don't like all the stuff we broke, then you can submit
a patch !"

Believe it or not, the original open source people went way out of
their way to make code buildable on *everything*. The responsibility
for good code is the *developer* and *maintainer*, not the user.

Every time you turn around now some stupid dependency is broken or won't build.

> Reuben Thomas has just applied some
> patches to git master that make a few more things mandatory.


Thanks for the warning, looks like me and fontforge will soon be
parting ways ....

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