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Add release branch with pre-built font binaries #3

Open glennkidd opened 6 years ago

glennkidd commented 6 years ago

Many of the other adobe source code fonts (source-code-pro, source-sans-pro, source-serif-pro) have a release branch which contains the pre-built fonts, which makes it easier to consume changes as it does not require you to have the AFDKO installed.

kenlunde commented 6 years ago

There is a pre-built OTF in the latest release that is probably what you want. (I just noticed that it is still current).

glennkidd commented 6 years ago

That does work, it would still be nice to be able to pull down the latest release through git, without having to go to github to get it.

kenlunde commented 6 years ago

We should leave it to the discretion of the project owner as to whether to add a "release" branch.

Interestingly, using the "releases" pages was actually necessary for the Source Han & Noto CJK Mega/Ultra OTCs project, because the OTCs are almost 300MB in size. I originally had them in the "master" branch as split ZIP files, and a "release" branch would have faced the same size-limit issue, necessitating split ZIP files.

pauldhunt commented 6 years ago

@glennkidd Thanks for taking interest in this project! Progress has been very slow up to this point and the current state of the the font is very much ‘alpha’ so there are no officially released fonts yet. We do plan to implement this suggestion of making binaries more accessible once there are some actual fonts available.