Re: cannot bootstrao fontforge!

I was not thrilled about adding the bootstrap layer to FontForge, but it
builds just fine for me and for many others. It would be relatively easy to
identify and to diagnose the problem here if a certain party were not so
insistent on turning the thread into a whirlwind of hateful statements and
obscene language. FontForge has its share of inherent flaws, but they don't
do nearly as much to alienate users as getting a frighteningly angry tirade
from a stranger when trying to ask a question.


On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 8:04 PM, jb <[email protected]> wrote:

> Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
>
> > You are also being exceptionally unkind to other people, while not
> > reading the actual context.
>
>
> The other people don't deserve kindness. Their work is crap.
> Fontforge has gone nowhere for ten years ... no, I take that back,.
> It has gone *backwards* for ten years because acne-riddled
> teeny-boppers living in Mom's garage are too concerned with how cool
> they are and not how well the software builds or how well it works
> or how thorough and accurate the documents are or ... anything. Just
> how many strokes they can get in on their pee-pees.
>
> Just the facts, ma'am. People are better off pulling down an
> 'ancient' version  in a format you can actually *use* without
> spending your life on nonsense (most of which does not work) and
> going with that.
>
> Look around : what will you see ? People who spend years making a
> mess, then deciding "Oh this doesn't work, we need to make a new
> one." Maybe if you had a real plan and standards and goals and
> testing in the first place, people wouldn't have to ditch Fontforge
> for a bunch of vaporware (which will *also* be a pile of crap
> because "modern" development couldn't find its ass with both hands
> in a dark room. "Modern" is apparently a synonym for incoherent,
> unstable, undocumented, disorganized pointless *shit*, and I can
> illustrate that a hundred times over.)
>
> We were better off in 1980.
>
> I wish this were not true, but it is. Demonstrably.
>
> Cruel to be kind, ya know ?
>
>
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