Re: Suffix for Old Standard ?

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 24 juillet 2008 01:11, Dave Crossland a écrit : 2008/7/23 Martin-Gomez Pablo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So we need to add a suffix to the name but I'm not imaginative for finding a good suffix (maybe iced as Nicolas propose), anyone of you have an lightning idea ? Why not use a build of FF

Re: Are we really going to require fonts to be built from sources by Fedora packagers? [Was: Re: Suffix for Old Standard ?]

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Hi, We do not require fonts to be built from source. We ask packagers to build font from sources when those sources are available unless they have a very good reason not to. However once upon a time, we didn't require fonts to be modifiable. When enough modifiable fonts became available policy

Re: Are we really going to require fonts to be built from sources by Fedora packagers? [Was: Re: Suffix for Old Standard ?]

2008-07-24 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: non-free tools like FontLab ... free-beer tools like Adobe FDK That a proprietary program is distributed at zero price is not important; that it is proprietary is what matters :-) I think we'll try to bump the fontforge version in fedora-devel to

Suffix for Old Standard ?

2008-07-23 Thread Martin-Gomez Pablo
don't insist the name should be changed entirely, adding a suffix (say, Old Standard FC) would be sufficient and even preferrable. The reason is that I could not update the source package on my site for more than a year (instead I was spending my efforts improving FontForge itself

Re: Suffix for Old Standard ?

2008-07-23 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/23 Martin-Gomez Pablo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So we need to add a suffix to the name but I'm not imaginative for finding a good suffix (maybe iced as Nicolas propose), anyone of you have an lightning idea ? Why not use a build of FF from the same time the source files were published? --