[Openfontlibrary] Font site wishlist

[Dave Crossland]

On 30 Oct 2006 07:07:46 -0800, George Williams <gww at silcom.com> wrote:
>
> > The features needed to support such collaboration (essentially some
> > form of version control, where the glyphs in a font may exist in
> > numerous versions)
>
> Is version control something that should be built in to a font editor,
> or is cvs adequate?

CVSish repositories (SVN, git, bazaar, etc) with existing big-grain
file formats - ie one file per font, be it sfd, otf, ttf type1 or
whatever - are not perfect compared to the file-grain of UFO, because
its hard to see which glyphs changed and to pick and mix the glyphs
from various development branches using the standard tools.

Version control built right into a font editor that supports UFO is
definitely a great feature, as its a natural fit to the fine grained
nature of the format.

And I think it is also an excellent idea for big-grain formats, and
the extra programming to diff the files and work out which glyphs have
changed is probably (hopefully :-) trivial.

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Regards,
Dave