Example script fonts not installed in Raspbian Buster

[jjsanderson]

Example script fonts not installed in Raspbian Buster

[jjsanderson]

Hmm. I see the dilemma.

Wrapping the examples' font imports with try and a helpful error message tends to be my preferred way of doing this; it seems the most helpful approach for newcomers. However, it's messy for those who know what they're doing (I'm more commonly in the former camp than the latter, I think).

Perhaps the best compromise in this case would be a section in the repo readme? I guess the objective is to help people get up and running as smoothly as possible, in which case directing them to the examples (and their dependencies) will get them to the point of believing their pHAT works, quickly.

[Gadgetoid]

Since they are dependencies of the examples and not the library itself, these dependencies are only installed if you run curl -sSL https://get.pimoroni.com/inky | bash

I wonder if there's a better way to go about and/or document this- I guess the example itself could use a header that documents its dependencies.

But then, is Inky even useful without fonts? Maybe they should be dependencies of the library.