[REBOL] Re: request-font
From: carl:cybercraft at: 20-Jan-2003 18:37
On 19-Jan-03, Carl Read wrote:
> On 19-Jan-03, Gregg Irwin wrote:
>> Hi Anton,
>> We could keep the OS-specific names for download, but allow people
>> to rename them on their local system. The requestor would look for
>> get-fonts.r (as a standard name) and display an update button if it
>> exists. Just rename the file to what request-font is looking for
>> and go from there.
> I'd thought of that, but by having them have different version
> numbers (as I suggested) you can have more than one get-fonts
> version in the same directory. I've Windows and Linux on my PC, but
> my View directory is the same for both of them, it being in the
> Window's partition.
I've just realised this wouldn't work with the current get-fonts and
request-fonts as the fonts-data.txt file would be holding font names
for a particular OS. So, fonts-data.txt will need an OS-name (or
number) in its file-name too...
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Carl Read