fontforge package really old - need help with Portfile

[Helmut K. C. Tessarek]

I've recently found out that I need fontforge and the python bindings
for creating fonts (ForkAwesome) but the package on MacPorts is really,
really old.

The project has moved from sourceforge to github and I was trying to
create a new Portfile (since it doesn't have a maintainer), but I ran
into a few issues:

The packages are available on github
(https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases) but the names of the
dist tarballs do not conform to any convention. e.g.:

https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/20161005/fontforge-dist-20161004.tar.gz
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/20170731/fontforge-dist-20170731.tar.xz

So release 20161005 uses fontforge-dist-20161004.tar.gz
and release 20170731 uses fontforge-dist-20170731.tar.xz

Not even sure, if it's even possible to solve this unless there's a way
to hardcode the download address (which I also do not know how to do).

Hmm, so maybe building from git master. Well, the package doesn't use
./autogen.sh but some other script called bootstrap.

So how do I run bootstrap instead of autogen.sh?

Do I just use:

use_autoreconf          yes
autoreconf.cmd          ./bootstrap

In any case, I could need some help with the Portfile.

While it looks like a dependecy hell at first sight (current Portfile),
I believe it is not as bad as it looks. I don't think the patches are
required anymore, and the current build process should be rather
straight forward.

For a MacPorts Portfile expert, this should be a matter of a few
minutes, so if you can spare a few of those, please help me.

Cheers,
  K. C.

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