Bug 556108 – media-fonts/monoid Open Source Coding Font

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description José Romildo Malaquias 2015-07-28 12:04:15 UTC]

Please add Monoid to portage.

Monoid is customizable and optimized for coding with bitmap-like sharpness at 15px line-height even on low res displays.

http://larsenwork.com/monoid/

[Comment 1 José Romildo Malaquias 2015-07-28 22:44:04 UTC]

Created attachment 407836 [details]
monoid-9999.ebuild

[Comment 2 José Romildo Malaquias 2015-07-29 01:47:59 UTC]

Created attachment 407850 [details]
monoid-9999.ebuild

Updated ebuild.

[Comment 3 Alex Brandt (RETIRED) 2015-08-02 18:19:38 UTC]

I've put this ebuild in my overlay and am currently using it.  Would you like to proxy-maintain with me if I put it in the tree?  Would you mind asking upstream about marking releases so we can get versions in the tree as well?  Let me know; otherwise, I'm fine leaving it in my overlay as well since it's a live ebuild.

[Comment 4 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) 2015-08-03 04:31:58 UTC]

(In reply to Alex Brandt from comment #3)
> I've put this ebuild in my overlay and am currently using it.  Would you
> like to proxy-maintain with me if I put it in the tree?  Would you mind
> asking upstream about marking releases so we can get versions in the tree as
> well?  Let me know; otherwise, I'm fine leaving it in my overlay as well
> since it's a live ebuild.

The fonts team would be happy to commit a versioned ebuild. We prefer live ebuilds to stay in overlays. We would also prefer to not have a hard dependency on fontforge.

I think we could rename (with version) and mirror upstream's release archive, until upstream can be convinced to do versioned releases (which unfortunately is not that common in the fonts community).

[Comment 5 José Romildo Malaquias 2015-08-04 13:36:51 UTC]

Asked upstream for versioned releases: https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid/issues/110

[Comment 6 José Romildo Malaquias 2015-08-09 10:24:19 UTC]

(In reply to José Romildo Malaquias from comment #5)
> Asked upstream for versioned releases:
> https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid/issues/110

Upstream now provides versioned archive releases!

https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid/archive/0.60.tar.gz

[Comment 7 Guilherme Amadio 2015-08-10 12:38:52 UTC]

Thanks! Just commited it to the tree.

[Comment 8 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) 2015-08-11 16:05:38 UTC]

(A reminder from comment #4)
> We would also prefer to not have a hard dependency on fontforge.

Can we just generate the font files and mirror those ourselves, if upstream does not release those?

[Comment 9 Guilherme Amadio 2015-08-11 18:17:46 UTC]

(In reply to Ben de Groot from comment #8)
> (A reminder from comment #4)
> > We would also prefer to not have a hard dependency on fontforge.
> 
> Can we just generate the font files and mirror those ourselves, if upstream
> does not release those?

Ok, I will package and mirror the compiled files.

[Comment 10 Guilherme Amadio 2015-08-20 07:26:39 UTC]

Done. Bumped version to 0.61, and new version doesn't need fontforge anymore.