add designspace.json

[BlackFoundry]

add the file accodring to the "font infos" to the project on the repo so that one can generate the VarC VF font

[fabiocaccamo]

@BlackFoundry @GaetanBaehr do you mean the possibility to manage it via API like fontLib.json?

[BlackFoundry]

Please refer to this, the designspace.json is required to build the binary font: https://github.com/BlackFoundryCom/rcjk-tools#robocjk-to-varc-vf-workflow

[fabiocaccamo]

@BlackFoundry this is not strictly-related to how API works, actually the designspace.json is automatically pushed but not managed by the APIs, if it must be managed with some automatism I should know the desired result.

[justvanrossum]

Can this please be resolved? I'm not sure I understand what needs to be done to make it happen.

(Gaëtan imported a new version of the hangul.rcjk project, which did contain a designspace.json file, but designspace.json didn't get imported and now no longer exists in git, making the CI fail. Or something like that.)

[fabiocaccamo]

This will be solved soon, in the meantime to avoid the CI failure the designspace.json file could be added manually to the repository.

[fabiocaccamo]

@justvanrossum @GaetanBaehr @BlackFoundry this is done.

Now designspace.json is imported when importing a font from the backend and exported to git when modified. It is possible to modify designspace.json data using the API (the local client must be updated with the latest client version).

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I'm sorry, I committed a mistake and referenced the wrong repo in the commit (I did it just for demonstrating that referencing issues cross-repositories could be confusing :) ).

I reference the commit manually here: Added designspace support to API and client.

[justvanrossum]

All existing designspace.json files have now been replaced with empty ones. Please revert to what they were before.

[fabiocaccamo]

Were there any other designspace.json files besides this: https://github.com/BlackFoundryCom/gs-cjk-rcjk/commit/923dfed9edb611a22c02a4b09ede448307338fdf ?

[justvanrossum]

Were there any other designspace.json files besides this: BlackFoundryCom/gs-cjk-rcjk@923dfed ?

They were non-empty in every .rcjk project, but they were (most likely) all identical to that one.

[fabiocaccamo]

There is no need to revert changes, just need to update the font designspace.json data from the backend or via the API and it will be pushed on the next commit.

[justvanrossum]

Whatever you call it, please make it happen... I'm not working with the front end, and don't even have access to the projects from that side.

[fabiocaccamo]

I added them, so in the next sync designspaces will be pushed.

[justvanrossum]

Thanks! This issue should be closed (but I can't).

[fabiocaccamo]

Me neither, @BlackFoundry could you close this issue?