Re: Funding FontForge

Jose, I really think that you need to give FontForge and TruFont another
look.

FontForge was indeed very broken for a few years due to a lack of developer
leadership and the merging of bad pull requests. But I've spent the last
few years fixing most of the damage and carefully reviewing pull requests
(or holding them until I have time to do so). We've even fixed things that
were broken from the George Williams days. I think that if you try a recent
build of FontForge, you will find it to be as stable as a 2012 build, if
not more so.

TruFont does indeed use Qt, but I don't see why this is a matter for
objection. Are you suggesting that Adrien write his own widget kit like
FontForge? Or that he use GTK? GTK is fine, but not massively better than
Qt, and there's no reason in this day and age (of widespread Unicode
support) to write another widget kit. I know that it wasn't an option back
in 2000, but I sure wish that FontForge used a standard widget kit.

The effort on TruFont will not be wasted and will in fact be very well
spent if it succeeds in implementing FontForge-level features in an
appropriate programming language with a comprehensible, sane, and
extensible object model. Adrien has shown himself in his FontForge work to
be a skilled developer, and, with the right level of community and
developer support, I expect that his project will succeed.


On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:18 AM, jb <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jose Da Silva wrote:
>
> >
> > out of curiosity, are you able to build/compile the latest FontForge,
> > libspiro, libuninameslist, or are you locked with an older version?
> >
> > what builds, what doesn't, if you've tried something recent.
>
>
>
> gort 7% ./fontforge -version
> Copyright (c) 2000-2012 by George Williams.
>   Executable based on sources from 14:57 GMT 31-Jul-2012-NoPython.
>   Library based on sources from 14:57 GMT 31-Jul-2012.
> fontforge 20120731
> libfontforge 20120731
>
>
>
> I had something newer running a few months  ... who am
> I kidding, it was probably over a year ago now :)
>
> But I'm pretty much done with the "upgrade" cycle. Too
> many new breakages, too few old fixages. Maybe a newer
> one is 'better' but it's not worth the hassle to find out.
>
> Just look at this new project - all gaga over Qt. Whoopee.
> I'm so excited. Want to talk wasted effort ?
>
>
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