Re: Fonts for the backend

[Thomas Weber]

Am Mittwoch, den 25.06.2008, 09:27 +0200 schrieb Jaroslav Hajek:
> I think this is another area where a "download on demand" strategy
> could work well.
> The idea is setting up a web repository for Octave from which the
> configure script would be able to download (using wget or something
> equivalent) anything that is not found on the host system, such as
> libraries, programs, or fonts in this case.
> The idea is taken from FreeFEM++ where it is *really* convenient,
> provided you have wget and internet connection: you just do
> "./configure --enable-download ; make" and it works like a charm.

How do they care for security updates? Oh, and as soon as you distribute
other people's stuff, you have to check the licenses.

        Thomas