Re: Add Microsoft Cascadia Code font?

[yasu]

I created a 'low-standard-guix' repository and moved the submitted
package there, for now :-)

https://github.com/yugawara/low-standard-guix/blob/master/README.md

Again, when I get time, let me see if I can properly package Cascadia
Code fonts!

Cheers,
Yasu



On Sun, 2021-01-10 at 19:56 +0900, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
> Hi Leo,
> 
> Understood, and this level of scrutiny is actually an encouraging
> sign that Guix has standards! 😄
> 
> I am happy enough to have it this way for my personal use for
> now.  Later, when I have more time, let me revisit.   
> 
> I have not experimented with this yet but I also understand I can
> create a separate repository as well.   Maybe that will also do😄
> 
> Regards,
> Yasu
> 
> > On Jan 10, 2021, at 19:38, Leo Prikler <
> > leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Yasu,
> > 
> > I don't think it'll be so simple.  It appears, that nerd-fonts
> > already
> > includes – or at least has the potential to include – some non-free
> > glyphs, which would in turn then be part of Cascadia.  An instance
> > would be pomicons [1], which are licensed as CC BY-NC-ND.  A
> > reviewer
> > would first have to verify, that Cascadia is indeed wholly covered
> > under the OFL or at least under a set of free licenses.
> > 
> > Yes, it sucks having to put that much effort into packaging a font,
> > but
> > if you just want to have a workable font for programming, there are
> > probably better solutions than Cascadia, some of which are already
> > packaged in Guix – e.g. font-fira-code.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Leo
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/gabrielelana/pomicons
> > 
> > Am Sonntag, den 10.01.2021, 19:11 +0900 schrieb Yasuaki Kudo:
> > > Thank you for your comments!
> > > 
> > > Because I don't have a lot of time, is it ok to just re-format
> > > the
> > > original submission, get it committed with the comment that the
> > > package needs to be compiled rather than copied, when someone (or
> > > I)
> > > wants to so properly?
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Yasu
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > On Jan 10, 2021, at 18:16, Leo Prikler <
> > > > leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hello Vincent,
> > > > 
> > > > there is no .tar of the fonts however, that's a source tarball
> > > > generated by github.  To be fair, one should probably build
> > > > this
> > > > font
> > > > (and other fonts) from source instead.  In particular, we might
> > > > want to
> > > > package nerd-fonts[1] first, since Cascadia appears to be an
> > > > iteration
> > > > of it.
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Leo
> > > > 
> > > > [1] https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
> > > > 
> > > >