Trouble with calling "fontforge -usage/-help/--help"

[hartwork]

Some versions of fontforge (e.g. the latest version 20120731) open a web browser not just for -usage but for -help, too. Despite their docs saying otherwise. Proof:

# strace -eprocess -F fontforge -help |& fgrep xdg-open
[pid  3966] execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", "\"xdg-open\" \"http://fontforge.sf."...], [/* 63 vars */]) = 0
execve("/usr/bin/xdg-open", ["xdg-open", "http://fontforge.sf.net/overview"...], [/* 61 vars */]) = 0

# fontforge -version
Copyright (c) 2000-2012 by George Williams.
 Executable based on sources from 14:57 GMT 31-Jul-2012.
 Library based on sources from 14:57 GMT 31-Jul-2012.
fontforge 20120731
libfontforge 20120731

While you could argue that the bug should be fixed in fontforge, there's an easy fix to make mftrace work for users of that fontforge version, too: I propose to turn the fontforge command detection from calling fontforge -usage to calling fontforge -version. Many thanks for your consideration.

[hartwork]

Please fix, it's three years soon :)

[hanwen]

seems to be fixed now (fontforge 20170308).

[hartwork]

Hi!

I fail to find release 20170308 that you mention at https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/tags . Where did you see it?

Since distros don't have FontForge that new and may also bump mftrace quicker than FontForge, could you still do that tiny change to calling fontforge -version rather than fontforge -usage/-help/--help?

Best, Sebastian