14.03.2016, 11:00, "Frédéric WANG" <fred.w...@free.fr>: > Le 13/03/2016 20:57, Darin Adler a écrit : >> I don’t think the size of the font files in the repository is a significant >> issue; are the sizes particularly huge compared to the total size of all the >> layout tests including expected results? If this was a problem, we could >> come up with some other way of having the test machinery download the fonts, >> but I think the complexity of that is not justified to solve a problem that >> may be a non-problem. > > My personal preference is to avoid putting (big) binary data inside > revision control system and instead generate or fetch them during the > build phase. Of course, sometimes you have to be pragmatic and it's more > convenient / easier to just put them in the repo. That's what we do for > example for the PNG test expectations, even though I don't like > polluting the WebKit patches with base64 data :-)
I would also like to add that *changing* big binary data inside repository will have more negative impact on git users that on svn users. > > In addition, as I mentioned the OpenType fonts use LaTeX Project Public > License + Reserved Font Names and SIL OFL (copyleft + RFN) which may or > may not be compatible/convenient with the license of the WebKit project. > For example, I'm not even sure that with the current license of Latin > Modern Math it is possible to create a WOFF version without renaming it... > >> Aside from the size of the font files, it seems like we have at least three >> separate issues: > > Thanks, I think I basically agree with these three points. It seems that > we went far away from my initial question (can we use custom fonts to > run Mac tests?). So I guess the next step for me will be to open a new > thread describing precisely the different features of MathML / Unicode / > OpenType that are used by WebKit, which math fonts support them or not > and what fallback we use or can use when math fonts are missing. Maybe > I'll wait the MathML refactoring to land and/or STIX2 to be released > before continuing the discussion. > > I'd just like to highlight that in my opinion the rule of thumb would be > to treat math as other human languages (e.g. think to what happens with > Asian or Arabic scripts, ruby markup, OpenType features for complex text > layout etc). For example, just like normal text, CSS can be used on > MathML to select a math font and WebKit has to do its best to render > equations with that font or another system font and maybe finally a > non-font fallback (Gecko even has an internal "math" language to let > users customize the default and fallback fonts for MathML). The same > idea applies to pre-installed system fonts or layout tests. > > -- > Frédéric Wang > > , > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
