Harry Dalton

I would much appreciate such a feature. Failing this, as a temporary fix, how are people retagging their files with the correct release (including renaming etc, if done)?

Happy to put something together :) One further thought: would it better for us to wrap the XML library error here ([Layer.loadGlyph](https://github.com/fonttools/ufoLib2/blob/master/src/ufoLib2/objects/layer.py#L315-L321)) or in fonttools ([GlyphSet.readGlyph](https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/blob/main/Lib/fontTools/ufoLib/glifLib.py#L372-L429))?

In this case, we have a wide designspace for which we want to build more static instances than we have named instances for in the variable font. (in particular, we...

Whoopsy, I've double-reviewed you - definitely not meant to replace yours Max, just had the page open too long before hitting go :smile:

I forgot to update: I managed to get everything that I needed setup locally in the end, and the README was perfectly up-to-date for this purpose :muscle: This leaves this...

Not user-facing but partially relevant: looks like [our current `dev-requirements.txt`](https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/blob/7e374c53da9a7443d32b31138a0e5be478bcbab9/dev-requirements.txt) no longer installs on Python 3.8: > the current Python version (3.8.20) does not satisfy Python>=3.9 and black==24.10.0 depends on...

Thanks for the speedy review Khaled :muscle: I'll see what it would take to run the `tox` command alongside the project tests, and/or construct a basic `.readthedocs.yml`

I've added a template `.readthedocs.yml`, and have tried to use options cautiously until we are able to test in a real environment; in particular, I am not sure how the...

Site appears to be down again: https://namecheck.fontdata.com/about/

I've always found [uharfbuzz's solution](https://github.com/harfbuzz/uharfbuzz?tab=readme-ov-file#installation) for this elegant -- default to bundled library, but with the option to use the system library instead -- would that be of interest here?