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aliftype / qahiri

Qahiri (قاهري) is a manuscript Kufic typeface
https://aliftype.com/qahiri/
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Please use OpenFV for tags #5

Closed alerque closed 3 years ago

alerque commented 3 years ago

The latest release tagged v1.01 is problematic to package for distros because in most systems it evaluates to a lower version number than the previous releases such as v1.008. This is because each segment is typically evaluated as integers, and leading zeros don't affect their value. 01 is less than 008.

If you would stick to the OpenFV specification for version numbers and Git tags this wouldn't be an issue because the second component of the version will always be three digits. The current release would be v1.010 in this scheme, and of course 10 is bigger than 8 so dist packaging would be business as usual.

khaledhosny commented 3 years ago

OpenFV seems rather complicated to me. I might as well make the next version 2, and skip minor versions altogether. In my world versions are just arbitrary increasing numbers and trying to give much semantics to them is futile.

alerque commented 3 years ago

In my world versions are just arbitrary increasing numbers and trying to give much semantics to them is futile.

I realize the semantics are on the futile side for fonts, but my main point is this: arbitrary increasing numbers are fine, but your numbers did not increase! They decreased. I agree any arbitrary increasing number scheme would get the job done (although I do think OpenFV has merit), but a number scheme that sometimes increases and sometimes decreases is worse than useless.

khaledhosny commented 3 years ago

1.01 is certainly bigger than 1.008, the fact that some chose to interpret this as to separate numbers is no fault of mine.

khaledhosny commented 3 years ago

2.00 is out.