[OpenFontLibrary] Heuristica 0.2

[Nicolas Spalinger]

Daniel Glassey wrote:
> 2009/8/20 Andrey V. Panov <panov at canopus.iacp.dvo.ru>:
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:55:19PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
>>>
>>>> No you just have to be a git expert, which is much easier isn't it:
>>>> git clone git://ctrl.tukaani.org/xz.git
>>>>
>>>> You can grab and build the tarballs from the packages.foo.org pages
>>>> (right-hand menu) or on the upstream website...
>>>> Or motivate maintainers for your preferred environment...
>>> Incidentally, XZ sounds very much like Russian ХЗ acronym which can be
>>> roughly translated as "hell knows" meaning "How do I know?" :) I'm
>>> wondering if Andrey realized that :)
>>>
>>> Alexandre
>> No. Xz format is becoming the leading format for compression for Linux
>> binary packages. Slackware already switched to it, Red Hat is going to
>> do this in its rpm format. You may also install 7zip 9.x to unpack this.
> 
> Leading? And it's the first time Alexandre and I (and I would guess
> lots of others) have heard of it. How do you expect users on older
> OS's to unpack it? Or do you just not want them to see the font? Why
> not have a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 as well as this new format? If it is
> going to be packaged for Debian/Ubuntu it will need to be repacked
> anyway.
> 
> I see that most of the other files in that directory are .bz2 so I
> can't see that being a problem.
> 
> Aside from that, good work on the fonts :)

Yes, indeed!

We somehow got sidetracked by the format issue, so I'll join Daniel in
saying thanks again to you Andrey for all the design work and for
releasing it widely :-)

> Regards,
> Daniel

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer
Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary
http://planet.open-fonts.org