Re: Font Awesome version 5
On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 5:35 PM Jerry James <loganjerry(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In the review of python-pydata-sphinx-theme
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1981997), the
fact that our FontAwesome font packages are on version 4.x came up.
That new package needs version 5.x. I tried to make it work with 4.x
... no luck.
I do not want to take over the existing fontawesome-fonts package, nor
do I want to be involved in porting anything from version 4.x to
version 5.x. I am willing, however, to maintain a
parallel-installable version 5.x of the fonts, so that applications
can migrate on their own schedules (with an eye to eventually
deprecating and/or removing the existing package). I have filed a
review request:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1989300
How sensible! This is how packages should be named, consistently and
simply. Unfortunately, the package does not match the name of the
tarball, nor of the tarballs over at pypi.org. Why not simply use the
pypi.org tarall name of "fontawesomefree" ?
It uses the name fontawesome-free-fonts for two reasons:
- To be different from the existing package name for parallel
installability; and
- To distinguish the Fedora package from the Pro version of the fonts.
What are the "Pro" versions called, or what is their tarball called?
> I have two misgivings about this package and would appreciate some
> input from the community on these points.
> 1. Does the name rationale make sense?
> 2. Do we actually need the web subpackage? The font guidelines say
> NOT to package svg, woff, etc. versions of a font because modern
> browsers can read the otf versions. On the other hand, the web
> subpackage also contains JavaScript versions of the fonts (which
> cannot be built from source using only Fedora packages, alas!). On
> the gripping hand, the existing package has a web subpackage, and it
> seems to be used (by 8 packages).
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Jerry James
> http://www.jamezone.org/
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