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ftxvalidator availability

See original GitHub issue

I’m using usually GNU/Linux as my development machine. ftxvalidator is a Mac-only tool.

I wrote a small drop in replacement script for ftxvalidator, if there’s a remote OSX available via ssh this can be used.

https://gist.github.com/graphicore/a83eeb8829ba64a628c8872092910515

So, if your roomate has a mac and you don’t, you might convince him to give you ssh credentials 😉

It’s a start at least.

@davelab6 added these tasks to be resolved before closing, from the discussion below

Mention this helper script in fontbakery README.md
Add the ftxvalidator-over-ssh helper script to FB repo
Replace remotefile=/tmp/$base with remotefile=/tmp/$base-$$

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:16 (12 by maintainers)

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davelab6commented, Apr 6, 2018

Reassigning this to @felipesanches now he has access to macOS to test.

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davelab6commented, Mar 10, 2017

Yep forget ftx for now.

On Mar 10, 2017 12:00 AM, “Felipe Corrêa da Silva Sanches” < notifications@github.com> wrote:

@davelab6 https://github.com/davelab6

Based on what I learned so far, it seems docker is tightly attached to very specific Linux calls. Unless someone come up with either a native-OSX docker… Which maybe what’s stated in this article https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/20/docker_os_x_ windows_beta_orchestration/ when it says “The OS X client uses Apple’s builtin hypervisor framework – yeah, Apple quietly embedded a hypervisor API in its desktop operating system. Previously, you had to use Docker with Oracle’s VirtualBox”.

Anyway, I doubt Google would offer an OSX node on container-engine. (I may be proven wrong though).

In the end, ftxvalidator being non-free turned out to be more than just a big concern for a software freedom “purist” like me. We’re seeing here an actual roadblock to get this integrated into the fontbakery web-dashboard running on Google Docker Engine.

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