Cosimo Lupo

If you don’t mind the noise in your inbox pyup.io runs a bit that will automatically send PRs to update a requirements.txt files in your repo whenever any package mentioned...

(a *bot*, not a bit)

Yeah, it’s good. You may want to configure it’s frequency to say once a week or so because it gets pretty quickly annoying. Check the configuration file in fontmake repo...

> Possible to swap out the Python 3 interpreter in an existing venv so that the libraries and executables do not need to be reinstalled each time this changes? no,...

there's a new kid in town, called [pipenv](https://github.com/pypa/pipenv), which has recently also become officially blessed by the Python Packaging Authority (PyPA), though I haven't checked it out yet. It seems...

what are the non-python requirements (just curious)?

Harfbuzz and Freetype only for ttfautohint, right? basically, all the stuff you mention can be done one way or another with some python module, and all the build requirements can...

good, let me know if I can help, as I maintain both of these bindings. - py-zopfli https://github.com/obp/py-zopfli https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zopfli - brotli (the upstream repo for the C library also contains...

> do you happen to have any extra time in the next few months? I'd love to, but don't have any spare time at the moment, sorry :(

pip install ttfautohint-py will automatically download the right binary package for the target python platform and architecture. You don’t need any compiler, it’s all pre-compiled.