Re: fontforge requirement

[Patrick McCarty]

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Since
>  Issue 963:     check dependency versions for 2.14
>  http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=963
> is closed, I am extremely reluctant to bump requirements now.
> According to configure.in,
> STEPMAKE_PATH_PROG(FONTFORGE, fontforge, REQUIRED, 20050624)
>
> Jan, are you hoping to merge Woff fonts before 2.14 ?  if so, we have
> a problem.  Since it needs to be so new ( 20100501 ), I would really
> like to postpone that until 2.15.  (unless it can be added in such a
> way that normal lilypond usage is fine with 20050624... I'm not
> certain what the woff stuff is; I'm just anticipating a potential
> problem).

I was going to bring this up when I have a chance to thoroughly review
Jan's patch, but I suppose I'll leave a quick comment right now.

-Patrick