Bug 54865

Summary:	fonttools-2.0.0_beta1.ebuild (new)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mike C. Fletcher <mcfletch>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Fonts Team <fonts>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	mcfletch, python
Priority:	High	Keywords:	EBUILD
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://fonttools.sourceforge.net/
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	54866
Attachments:	FontTools ebuild using the sourceforge site as primary source fonttools-2.0_beta1.ebuild

Description Mike C. Fletcher 2004-06-23 00:45:20 UTC

FontTools is a common Python module for accessing TrueType font definitions directly from the .ttf file.  It's a fairly low-level library intended for use in building tools such as font editors and font converters.  It's a dependency of the TTFQuery module (which will be submitted as an ebuild in a few minutes).

Comment 1 Mike C. Fletcher 2004-06-23 00:46:54 UTC

Created attachment 33932 [details]
FontTools ebuild using the sourceforge site as primary source

Suggested final name would be dev-python/fonttools for the package.

Comment 2 MATSUU Takuto (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-23 20:56:16 UTC

Created attachment 34017 [details]
fonttools-2.0_beta1.ebuild

Comment 3 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-10 01:59:25 UTC

Added to CVS. Thanks for the contribution.

Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-20 03:09:21 UTC

considering this package hasn't had a release since 2002, is probably unmaintained & the last release is still dubbed 'beta' i really doubt if this should've been added. Please make sure a package is a healthy project before adding it.

Comment 5 Mike C. Fletcher 2004-07-20 08:37:29 UTC

Apologies if it's incorrect to have submitted the ebuild, but this package is a dependency of an actively maintained project (TTFQuery), and in turn, of OpenGLContext (also actively maintained) and at least a few other Python projects (also using TTFQuery).

The library is fairly low level, and just does what it's supposed to do.  Tagging as a release would be nice, but I don't think it's a huge issue.  I've asked the developers about moving to release status, but there's not really a lot of extra work to do (at least wrt on the mechanisms used by other projects through TTFQuery).