klepas/open-baskerville

Update FontForge Homebrew Formula with Python extension

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Our build script requires FontForge with the Python extension. (Or alternatively, the Adobe Font Development Kit in combination with the RoboFab and UFO2FDK packages. AFDKO is closed-source and also non-trivial to install.) To make the build scripts accessible on OS X, a proper HomeBrew Formula is required.

I’ve had no luck adding the python extension to the formula:

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issuesearch?state=open&q=fontforge#issue/4689

I would be very happy if someone with more experience with makefiles and distutils (the documentation is really bad, no?) could take a look at this.

I did add a nifty gizmo though: running
$ brew install fontforge --HEAD
automagically fetches the latest revision from fontforge’s development tree and installs it.

Right, this is fixed. See Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#4689 . Updated install instructions in ufo2otf accordingly in ab3b5a4