From VFB to UFO to TrueType?

Several of the League of Movable Type faces are mentioned on the Fonts Wishlist, with caveats that they should be built from source. In this case, the source is VFB, FontLab's format. In order to go from here to OTF, we must apparently package RoboFab, according to the advice on the wiki pages, so we can export UFO using RoboFab, and feed this into FontForge. However, I've just taken a look at RoboFab, and I can't see a way in which it can be used to export UFO from a VFB file without having FontLab installed. You can certainly go from TTF or Type 1 to UFO, but going from VFB requires that FontLab has already loaded the VFB. Firstly, has anyone examined RoboFab more closely and can tell me that I'm missing something? Or alternatively, would it be OK to package the TLOMT fonts with OTFs in their zips without going from source?