[Openfontlibrary] cchost5 and OFL

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Fri Oct 3 21:00:58 PDT 2008


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Jon

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 18:53 +0200, Victor Stone wrote:
> (it should be noted that my posts are being bounced by OFLB list - I'm
> x-posting to cchost because of relevant info)
> 
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Ben Weiner <ben at readingtype.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > [condensing several messages]
> >
> > Jon Phillips wrote:
> >>
> >> It would be great to get this somewhere public before weekend is over.
> >>>
> >>> > IIRC there were other changes in the rest of the site:
> >>> > some xml files (like guidelines.xml) were also modified to turn ccHost
> >>> > from a music-oriented site to a fonts-oriented site.
> >>>
> >> Yes, right, but nothing core ccHost was modified. Everything is just
> >> skins, plugins, and xml files.
> >>
> >
> > OK, good to hear that ;-) Even if they don't all work  in v5.
> 
> Actually 'nothing' is too strong a word - compared to the skins (a
> complete redo) the changes to core should be low impact. However,
> there ARE changes to core that will affect many plugins - like events
> that are no longer being triggered on very upload record.
> 
> Again - point me at code and I can spot them in seconds.
> 
> >>
> >> You can add filetypes in the admin pages.
> >
> > Right: may I ask: add as in add to the list of filetypes or as in pick 1-n
> > choices from a list of predefined filetypes?
> 
> Filetypes should be added in the psuedo-verifier from the admin
> screens - this was a late add to v4 and nothing has changed. I know
> devs are quick to jump into php code to add file types but this is a
> really big mistake (not that it costs lives or anything, just a time
> waster).
> 
> VS
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