[Slackbuilds-users] fontmatrix source is M.I.A.

Robby Workman rworkman at slackbuilds.org
Sun Feb 12 17:38:40 UTC 2012


On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:47:02 -0500
Klaatu <klaatu at straightedgelinux.com> wrote:

> Some time ago, I volunteered to take over fontmatrix from its
> previous maintainer, Larry Hajali.
> 
> Fontmatrix is at 0.6 as it has been for about 2 years now but today I
> noticed that its listed homepage, fontmatrix.net is dead, and its old
> homepage is basically dead (Drupal install with one surviving node).
> 
> So, nobody's gonna be able to actually download fontmatrix for a
> while if the slackbuild continues to point to its true upstream
> sources.
> 
> 
> Bottom line:
> 
> I have the fotnmatrix source code in my own personal backups.  Shall
> I mirror? shall I mod the slackbuild so it just steals it from a
> trusted mirror like a Fedora RPM dist?
> 
> Thoughts? 


Any of the thoughts offered by others are valid, so you decide.  :)

-RW
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