Q: How can I improve some of the UI text? about designwithfontforge.com

[bencrowder]

Question: are there compilation instructions for OS X? Right now I use HomeBrew to compile the HEAD, but I'm not sure how to point HomeBrew to compile my fork instead. (I tried compiling it outside of HomeBrew but I'm getting environment-related errors, and I'd like to compile using HomeBrew's settings so I know my changes actually work with the normal setup.)

[davelab6]

The compilation instructions are the Homebrew formula :)

$ brew edit fontforge

Then replace what is currently line 8,

  head 'https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge.git'

with your github url, save the file, and brew uninstall fontforge; brew install fontforge --HEAD --with-x

I update the issue text to reflect this important testing step :D

[bencrowder]

Awesome, thanks.

[vernnobile]

any idea how to force homebrew to use nano instead of vim to edit ?? :)
i effing hate vim.

On 16 Sep 2013, at 08:21, Dave Crossland [email protected] wrote:

The compilation instructions are the Homebrew formula :)

$
brew edit fontforge

Then replace what is currently line 8,

head 'https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge.git'
with your github url, save the file, and brew uninstall fontforge; brew install fontforge --HEAD --with-x

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[davelab6]

@vernnobile https://www.google.com/search?q=unix+shell+editor+variable

[vernnobile]

ahh thanks :) Homebrew uses the system default.
To change OSX default from vim to nano, i ran;
EDITOR=nano; export EDITOR

ps

brew install fontforge --HEAD --with-x

fails for me on 10.8.4 :(

iMac:~ vern$ brew install -v fontforge --HEAD --with-x
==> Cloning https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge.git
git status -s
Updating /Library/Caches/Homebrew/fontforge--git
git config remote.origin.url https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge.git
git config remote.origin.fetch +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
git fetch origin
git reset --hard origin/HEAD
HEAD is now at 39e86e0 Update prefs to ensure Snap to Int is on by default
git checkout-index -a -f --prefix=/private/tmp/fontforge-xbB0/
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/fontforge/HEAD --enable-double --without-freetype-bytecode --with-python-headers=/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 --with-python-lib=-lpython2.7 --enable-pyextension --without-cairo --without-pango
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/fontforge/HEAD --enable-double --without-freetype-bytecode --with-python-headers=/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 --with-python-lib=-lpython2.7 --enable-pyextension --without-cairo --without-pango
Error: Failure while executing: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/fontforge/HEAD --enable-double --without-freetype-bytecode --with-python-headers=/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 --with-python-lib=-lpython2.7 --enable-pyextension --without-cairo --without-pango

On 16 Sep 2013, at 09:05, Dave Crossland [email protected] wrote:

@vernnobile https://www.google.com/search?q=unix+shell+editor+variable

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[davelab6]

brew install fontforge --HEAD --with-x --debug

and try to rerun the configure manually from the shell

[khaledhosny]

There is a (technical) reason those names has no spaces (written in a comment somewhere in the code, I do not remember), so you need to fix that first, not just blindly insert spaces.

[bencrowder]

Yep, I'm aware of that. (The comment -- by George -- says that spaces should be inserted and explains how to do it, which is the way Dave recommends above.)