From: Daniel Dickman Subject: Re: retire some python 2 ports To: "Kirill A. Korinsky" Cc: Brian Callahan , ports@openbsd.org Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 10:10:04 -0500 > On Feb 18, 2024, at 5:51 AM, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 07:57:25 +0100, > Brian Callahan wrote: >> >> However, one of its dependencies is: >> audio/solfege -> print/lilypond -> print/mftrace -> print/fontforge >> >> Font Forge is what has the Py2 dep. I suppose it makes the most sense to >> update fontforge. Unfortunately, I don't have the bandwidth to do that >> right now. >> Indeed I should have mentioned it was not a direct dependency. Thanks for that. I can put this one on the back burner for now until we decide what to do about fontforge. > > I've tried FontForge not that long ago with hope that I can convert some used > TTF fonts into bitmap fonts with huge DPI, but it crashes on start. I did try to update fontforge to almost every version of fontforge released since 2012 but it didn’t look like an easy one to update so I gave up so far. > > Thus, it hasn't been update for more than decade and update defently required. > Agree. An update by someone with an interest in fontforge could be very useful. > -- > wbr, Kirill >