All,
After I dig myself out of several other issues that I'd like to tackle, I'd
like to add a parser for MSAccess files. There's a pure java LGPL library,
Jackcess, available on maven, and it appears to be quite active.
I know we have a list of third party parsers, but I'm wondering if we could
write a Tika parser that uses Jackcess but sets it as "provided" in the pom.
This seems to me to be equivalent to our current "excludes" statements for some
other LGPL files.
Users would be responsible for grabbing the jar and putting it on their
classpath, and our parser would check to see if it was available in the
classpath before parsing or even admitting that it could handle an MSAccess
file.
Is this ok? Or would we have to offer the Tika parser as a purely third
party option, i.e. hang it on github?
Thank you.
Best,
Tim
