Re: cannot bootstrao fontforge!

Frank Trampe wrote:

> I was not thrilled about adding the bootstrap layer to FontForge, but it 
> builds just fine for me and for many others. 


And I can speak Chinese and so can many others. Oh goody goody, that 
makes everything perfect.

The FACT, as evidenced by the original article on this topic, is 
that it does *not* "build just fine" for most people.

Most people who try to build it just go away. In disgust.


> It would be relatively easy 
> to identify and to diagnose the problem here 


If it would be that easy, then why didn't it happen five years ago 
when I brought it up ? When the README and other doc files bore *no 
resemblance whatsoever* to the code ? When nothing they said to do 
worked ?

And what was the answer then ? Just a bunch of hogwash, like now. 
Nothing solved, nothing addressed, just a bunch of hot air and 
butthurt snivelling.

If I did this crappy a job, I'd get fired. Instantly.


> if a certain party were not 
> so insistent on turning the thread into a whirlwind of hateful 
> statements and obscene language. 


Yes of course. Anything that doesn't follow the sniveller 
bleeding-heart "it's really wonderful, you just need to (followed by 
ten pages of horseshit ideas that don't work) ..." is evil, mean 
nasty, rude, hurtful, obscene, pornographic, racist, non-respectful, 
divisive, bla bla bla bla bla. Waaaah waaaah waaaah.


All that doesn't change the fact that the code is crap. Been crap 
for years. From the top, Shithub is trash, worthless garbage that 
exists to fulfill the auto-erotic needs of a bunch of loser 
adolescents but no one else. Then it gets worse as we go farther ...


> FontForge has its share of inherent 
> flaws, 


Yes. Too bad no one has addressed ANY of them for the past ten 
years. We've seen nothing but churn and dick-waving.


> 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.


Oooh ! Ooh ! I'm so scared ! Someone used a bad word ! Mommy mommy, 
help me !

If the self-important retards messing up this perfectly good program 
would leave it alone, we'd be better off. It built and ran fine as 
PfaEdit. Maybe someone who understands C and programming would some 
day come along to work on real problems, instead of the stupid 
garbage I've seen.


Sourceforge. Tarfile. Configure, make, make install. Done, working 
program. Sure, it doesn't have the *modern !* hyberscoptic eccentric 
stabilizing deframillator, but who cares ? it builds and runs, as 
opposed to the smelly effluent you guys are peddling.


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