Integration with system fonts

[ghisvail]

With the new release of QtAwesome v4.x, patching the code to use the system fonts produces a FontError, most likely due to a mismatch between the mdf5 sums of the vendored fonts compared to the system ones. Please remember that vendoring is strongly discouraged by Linux distributions, hence the need for an integration path.

I would like to discuss with you guys what the best course of actions would be to have QtAwesome work with system fonts without complicating the package maintenance burden. Shall, I just make a patch to disable the sum checking part of the code?

[ccordoba12]

I think the best solution is for us to add a constant in qtawesome/__init__.py, like this

SYSTEM_FONTS = False

So if this constant is false then we proceed with our hash verification in iconic_font.py and if not (e.g. after you patch QtAwesome to make it true) we just skip it.

@ghisvail, what do you think?

[ghisvail]

I like that, thanks @ccordoba12

[ghisvail]

Do you have a fix I could apply on top of 0.4.1? I would like to try updating qtawesome in Debian before the freeze.

[ccordoba12]

When is the freeze?

[ghisvail]

Last date for upload should be on the 25th, but sooner would be better.

[ccordoba12]

I'll work on this tomorrow.

[ghisvail]

Thanks Carlos

[ghisvail]

FYI, if all goes well, we should have spyder-3.0.2, qtpy-1.2.0 and qtawesome-0.4.x (0.4.2?) in Debian Stretch.

[ghisvail]

I have also started a discussion with the packaging team to check whether we had enough time and resources to package spyder-3.1.0, which you just recently released. Congrats for the release by the way.

[ghisvail]

The team is keen on getting spyder-3.1.0 out in Stretch, but we'd have to act fast (we have one downstream using spyder, so they'd need some time for testing).

Do you think you can have a version 0.4.1+ of qtawesome ready super soon? It does not have to be 0.4.2, just 0.4.1 + a patch applied on my end.

[ccordoba12]

I'll release 0.4.2 in a couple of hours.

Also, there are a couple of bugs in Spyder 3.1.0, so we're going to release 3.1.1 in a couple of days, is that ok for you?

[ghisvail]

we're going to release 3.1.1 in a couple of days

Depends what you define by "couple of days"...

is that ok for you?

We think it is worth the try.

[ccordoba12]

Depends what you define by "couple of days"...

Saturday 21 at most, promised :-)

We think it is worth the try.

Great!

[ghisvail]

Saturday 21 at most

That should leave us enough time, although the earlier the better.

I am on stand-by for the updates to qtawesome and spyder.

[ghisvail]

@ccordoba12 Any news on the release? I can find some time tomorrow to work on the packaging, after that time will be scarce on my end.

Cheers,
Ghis

[ccordoba12]

0.4.2 is up now :-)