[Nix-dev] Google web fonts import

[Shea Levy]

Hi Antono,

I think these are good ideas. More structure and policy in nixpkgs would probably be helpful especially to new contributors. The big question is: Who will do the initial work? Of course suggestions are always welcome, but if you could put together an actual policy doc and a pull request that added the relevant documentation and updated the existing packages to meet that policy then this discussion will be much more likely to lead to the outcome you want.

Cheers,
Shea

On Jun 23, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Antono Vasiljev <self at antono.info> wrote:

> 
> Hello, Guys!
> 
> It's my first post here and i'm totally newbie in nix.  Currently i use
> nix on Ubuntu. I submited my first nix pkg yesterday and it was accepted
> :) https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/19
> 
> I would like to write small Google Web Fonts[1] importer for NixOs (+500
> free ttf fonts).  But before i start i would like to propose better
> naming conventions for font packages... Something like Debian Policy[2]
> looks good for me (fonts-FONTNAME).
> 
> Also, i know that nix is young and multipage policies will be overkill,
> but something like README.md in pkgs/data/fonts/ and other dirs could
> work.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> 
> [1]: http://www.google.com/webfonts/
> [2]: http://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/PackagingPolicy
> 
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