[webkit-dev] Fonts for WebKit tests on OS X?

[Frédéric WANG]

Le 11/03/2016 22:12, Myles C. Maxfield a écrit :
> Just to clarify: you want tests to use some specific fonts, but don’t
> want to check the fonts into the repository?
Yes. To test some specific OpenType MATH feature we already use our own
small fonts (a few kilobytes) loaded as Web fonts. However, for all the
other tests with real math fonts (where we want to get reliable
rendering and independent of which of these math fonts are installed or
not), it's not clear whether the license (compatibility with WebKit's?)
or the size (several hundreds of kilobytes) make that
possible/judicious. For WebKitGTK+ we have the separate repository of
fonts [3] mentioned in my previous mail that ensures Latin Modern Math
is available when running GTK tests.
> The downside to 1 is that it adds a new (non-obvious) step that all
> developers will have to perform every time they install a new
> operating system (in addition to any time we bring up a new buildbot).
> I would object to making the development environment even more
> complicated than it already is.
I agree with that. I'd just like to note that:

a) From my experience, installing user font in the Apple Font Book does
not even seem enough. For some reason, only the pre-installed font are
used when running tests...

b) As said above, WebKitGTK+ has a special mechanism to setup a jhbuild
environment and automate installation of dependencies ; I was wondering
if something similar exists for the Apple ports, but apparently that's
not the case...

> I’m not sure if I’m allowed to publicly discuss my opinions about 2
> (since it is technically an internal matter) but I would expect its
> success to be dubious.
Yes, I expected that. However, some years ago Apple accepted to install
the STIX font version 1.0. So I was hoping that maybe an upgrade to
version 2 when it is released would not be asking too much... at least
compared to the burden of managing a jhbuild-like mechanism in Apple
ports or bundling big fonts into the repo...

> Given this, I think the best solution is to check the fonts into the
> repository. Layout tests could target these as web fonts using
> @font-face, or they could use the same mechanism that we use for
> WebKitWeightWatcher (which is a font) to view the font as if it is
> preinstalled (without actually preinstalling it). 
Can you elaborate on what is done for WebKitWeightWatcher?

Thanks,

Frédéric

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