The package changed with the addition of its libepoll-shim dependency.
Otherwise, we can get:
ERROR: libepoll-shim>=0.0.20210418 is not installed; can't buildlink files.
This release contains numerous fixes and feature updates since the last release.
Major updates:
Python plugin support (#4642, #4682, #4671) @skef
Overhauled resource/appearance management (#4704) @skef
Merge/Simplify improvements (#4567, #4697) @linusromer
Updated Unicode support to Unicode 14.0.0, with nameslist functionality now directly integrated. (#4810) @jtanx
Add Points Of Inflection / Balance / Harmonize (#4900) @linusromer
Mac bundle/startup fixes (#4827) @jtanx
Language system tag list/script range/feature list updates (#4561, #4852, #4854, #4855) @dscorbett
Build changes:
The minimum supported Python version is now Python 3.6
Libuninameslist is no longer used or required
FontForge is now compiled with -Wall by default
On Wednesday, November 7th, 2000, George W. Williams V first
published a piece of software called PfaEdit that allowed rudimentary
editing of PostScript fonts. It lacked the features and polish of
such prominent products as Fontographer and Font Studio, but it
had one big advantage: it was free.
Twenty years later, Fontographer and FontStudio are gone, and the
whereabouts of George Williams are unknown, but FontForge has grown
into a highly capable and mature product. It supports dozens of
file formats and includes such features as spline stroking, overlap
removal, and Python scripting. And it is still free software. With
over 100,000 users, it is the most widely used typeface design tool
in the world.
It may seem anti-climactic that today's 20th anniversary release
includes no major changes or new features, but it perfectly befits
a product that has evolved carefully and slowly over its entire
lifecycle with almost no breaking changes. Whether for the special
commemorative splash screen or for the countless small improvements
and fixes, we hope that you will try it. It is available, as always,
on the FontForge website <https://fontforge.org/>;.
The entire project team thank you for your support.
Significant changes include the following.
FontForge now has much improved stroke expansion functionality. The main change is that it actually works most of the time. New features include support for arbitrary convex nibs and the miter-clip and arc join styles from SVG 2. All functionality is accessible from the Python and native APIs. (By @skef.)
Remove overlap handles certain important edge cases better. (By @skef and @frank-trampe.)
The Python API now has a function called genericGlyphChange that matches the "Change Glyph" command in the GUI. See #4133 for more details. (By @skef.)
The Python API now has functions for getting Unicode script and for interrogating glyph boundaries. (By @ctrlcctrlv.)
One can now use text flags (rather than just numerical flags) when opening a font file via the Python API. (By @skef.)
UFO import now outputs the note field properly. (By @skef.)
SVG import is much more robust. (By @skef.)
We have dropped most gnulib and autotools logic in favor of CMake, which dramatically simplifies the build system and just as dramatically improves build time. (By @jtanx.)
As part of the switch to CMake, per the deprecation of Python 2, and per the lack of objections to the proposal on the mailing list, we have dropped support for building FontForge with Python 2 support. The non-build-system Python 2 code remains, but it is neither tested nor maintained nor supported and is likely to follow a trajectory of decay and then removal.
Documentation is now rendered in Sphinx, which makes maintenance and improvement easier. (By @jtanx.)
Translations now happen on crowdin, which makes contributions easier. (By @jtanx.)
We got such a contribution for Croatian. (By @milotype.)
Character view point coloring is more consistent, and preview fills support transparency. (By @skef.)
The user can now move and close tabs in the character view. (By @ctrlcctrlv.)
The metrics view now allows for entry of negative kerning values and runs a bit more smoothly. (By @ctrlcctrlv.)
There is now a warning when a user is about to discard an unsaved script. (By @ctrlcctrlv.)
We fixed bugs all over, as always, with particular attention given to the metrics view, Python, Spiro, and high-resolution displays.
Notes on build system changes:
libgutils and libgunicode have been combined into libfontforge
libgdraw and libfontforgeexe have been combined into the fontforge executable itself
No development files are installed (headers, or pkg-config). This is because we do not provide a stable API or ABI to work against, nor are the headers actually well configured to be used externally. We are also not aware of any maintained product that compiles against FontForge itself.
Along with the usual bugfixes, there have been a couple of new features worth calling out:
Added Croatian translation
Added user decompositions
New graphic for the splash/about screen
Images embedded in SFDs are now serialised as PNGs
This is enabled by default, but may be turned off with the 'WritePNGInSFD' option.
A new tag is used to identify this mode; 'Image2', instead of 'Image'
This requires FontForge to be compiled with libpng support. If not compiled with libpng, FontForge will revert to the old method of serialising RLE encoded raw images.
As part of an ongoing effort to clean up the code base, there have additionally been multiple build system changes:
Python 2 support is deprecated. It is strongly recommended to build with Python 3 support. Python 2 support will be removed in a future release.
Both the Windows and Mac builds are now built with Python 3 instead of Python 2.
The minimum supported version for the Mac build is now MacOS Sierra (10.12)
FontForge no longer uses gnulib
collab support has been removed
The build system now expects libuninameslist to be present, and will fail if it is not found. Building without libuninameslist must be explcititly specified using --without-libuninameslist
Using TOOLS_PLATFORM.date= has the unfortunately side-effect of creating an
empty BUILD_DATE pkg_summary entry, as ${DATE} fails when generating the
metadata. Found by a pkg_summary checker.
It also fixes a number of small bugs relating to certain bitmap typefaces, stroke expansion, handling of CID ranges, and the user interface.
There are two tags and package sets. 20161004 is the original release, and 20161005 adds support for Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10.
the symptom being that ftttdrv.h (from freetype2) is not found. It
turns out that native X11 doesn't install ftttdrv.h for some reason
(probably an oversight) but that the lack is easily compensated
because the whole file contains only two substantive lines, neither of
which appears to be especially important.
PR 50902.
