Add to Windows Store

[musm]

This is more of a feature request (even if lofty)

But it would be cool if this was in the Windows Store like a few other Windows fonts, which would allow auto-updates. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/publish/

[cormullion]

Could be interesting... It's not a lot of money, but it's not quite the open-source way...

Individual accounts cost approximately $19 USD

[musm]

Yeah, I usually never remember to update my fonts. But the auto-update feature has been very, very convenient with Cascadia Code and now I never have to manually keep updating that fonts, which why I thought it would be a great enhancement here.

[cormullion]

I wonder if it could be a VS Code add-on. Have to investigate...

[musm]

What advantage does that bring? In other words, JuliaMono isn't a code editor extension so I don't see how this would help.

[cormullion]

Yes, true. I know there's a kind of extensions store, but perhaps it doesn't apply here...

[seb-mm]

I simply subscribed to new releases, so whenever there is a new version, I get an email and update it. Works for me.

[cormullion]

Thanks - and please let me know if there are any regressions, I can't test it on Windows... ! :)

[RoyiAvital]

By the way, what's recommended for Windows? The TTF or the regular ZIP?

[cormullion]

The zip has them all, but of course you might want only a few. (https://juliamono.netlify.app/download/#windows)

[RoyiAvital]

I read the instructions, they made me ask this question:

The instruction says the ZIP file. In the release there are 3 zip files.
Which one should I use (Recommended) for Windows?

[RoyiAvital]

@cormullion , Could you please specify which one?
Should Windows users use JuliaMono.zip, JuliaMono-ttf.zip or JuliaMono-webfonts.zip (I guess not)?

[cormullion]

Well if you want just the web fonts - to serve to a web site, for example - download the webfonts.zip or webfonts.tar.gz, depending on which format you prefer. If you want just the TTF fonts, then JuliaMono-ttf.zip or .tar.gz looks like the one to go for. For everything, go for JuliaMono.zip or .tar.gz.

Having said that, the size of the JuliaMono-ttf.zip and JuliaMono.zip files look suspiciously similar. Perhaps there's an improvement to be made in the github actions file https://github.com/cormullion/juliamono/blob/master/.github/workflows/ci.yml . If you find a way to improve it, go for it!

[RoyiAvital]

So there are 2 flavors, Web and TTF? So for the context of the OS only the TTF are needed?

[cormullion]

So there are 2 flavors, Web and TTF?

yes, if you don't know what web fonts are, you don't need them 😀

[RoyiAvital]

OK, so this is what caused my confusion, I thought there are 3: TTF, WebFonts and the 3rd zip. I didn't know, excluding the web fonts what suits the OS. So maybe the documentation should say that for OS level one only needs the TTF variant and the ZIP without a variant basically has both.

Thanks for this great work.