Re: [PATCH] gnu: font-gnu-freefont-ttf: Update to 20120503 and build from source.

[alírio eyng]

reiterating for the list
On 3/31/16, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> I understand cannot support Python 2 and 3 simultaneously, but I think
> Leo was suggesting changing the ‘fontforge’ package to use Python 2.x
> instead of 3.x.  WDYT?
python 2 has a end of life determined, 2020,
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/
so the default should be python 3
> Also, could you explain why we need fontforge-with-python2 instead of
> fontforge-with-python3?
inline comment in patch
>> +++ b/guix/gnu-maintenance.scm
>>  (define %tarball-rx
>> -  ;; The .zip extensions is notably used for freefont-ttf.
>>    ;; The "-src" pattern is for "TeXmacs-1.0.7.9-src.tar.gz".
>>    ;; The "-gnu[0-9]" pattern is for "icecat-38.4.0-gnu1.tar.bz2".
>>    (make-regexp
>> "^([^.]+)-([0-9]|[^-])+(-(src|gnu[0-9]))?\\.(tar\\.|zip$)"))
>
> This comment remains valid because there are .zip files in
> ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont, so I think we should keep it.
.zip files in freefont and icecat are binaries, not useful for guix
another patch will remove .zip support

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