[OpenFontLibrary] versioning

[Dave Crossland]

2009/5/8  <eric at authoritism.net>:
>
>>> However there still is a gap within this workflow—how do you generate
>>> distributable font files from the UFO?
>>> It would be great if you could do that programmaticaly,
>>
>> FontForge can do it very easily with python scripting:
>
> Could you do this on a webserver? Say, having a copy of fontforge running
> on the server, spitting out files on request? (or on each commit, for
> example)?

Sure, a webserver with fontforge and python is all you need.

> I had thought of scripting Fontforge but it seemed a bit heavyweight for
> hosted solutions,

Um, really? Where is the weight?

> it would be really cool if you have a hosted
> collaborative environment where people can work on a typeface via a
> flexible format like UFO, but the process also produces distributable
> files, so interested onlookers can just get, try and use the fonts without
> having to set up on entire collaboration environment locally.

Sure :-)

> It might be a major hassle to implement, but I could imagine something like
> this for the OFLB, where each font becomes a little repository you can
> submit patches to, or start their your fork from. Conceptually, this seems
> to already be sort of the model, because its recommended to include the
> source files (for collaboration), and you can 'remix' other fonts (like
> forking).

I think that's the long term plan, yes.