On Apr 10, 2009, at 14:17 , Damien Pollet wrote: >> Why is this requiring a new VM? Or did you mean an updated .app >> structure? > > Yes, I should have said VM application. Point is, the .app bundle is > designed for this purpose, and images with preconfigured fonts will > break or look ugly if the fonts are not there. > > > The alternative possibilities are not very interesting:
Yep. How would we package the fonts for Unix and Windows VMs? Adrian > > - use system fonts -> wrong, the fonts are only there by default on > (most) linuxes, so in practice, images will break until the user > manually installs the fonts > - distribute fonts in the image -> huge image > - distribute fonts besides the image -> it's already tedious to keep > .image and .changes > - distribute fonts besides the VM like the .sources -> I'm not sure if > that plays well with OS conventions for font installation > > > -- > Damien Pollet > type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
