On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Ard Schrijvers > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Are there objections against bumping Tika from 0.8 to at least 0.9 for >> the 2.2.x branch? > > Upgrading dependencies in a maintenance branch is a bit troublesome as > the risk of introducing unexpected problems is higher than with > simpler code changes. Thus the benefits should be carefully weighed > against the potential risk. > > One way to reduce the potential impact is to only update the Tika > dependency in the war, rar, and standalone jar archives, but leave the > dependency in jackrabbit-core unchanged so we don't accidentally mess > up with transitive dependencies of downstream projects. A downstream > project that embeds Jackrabbit but still wants the Tika update can > still do so locally by explicitly upgrading the version of the Tika > dependency.
Fair enough. I assumed tika 0.9 to be compatible with 0.8, but I am ok with your reasoning. I am already upgrading the tika dependency in our downstream projects. I'll keep it that way for the 2.2.x branch. Thanks for your feedback Jukka, Regards Ard > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting -- Amsterdam - Oosteinde 11, 1017 WT Amsterdam Boston - 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142 US +1 877 414 4776 (toll free) Europe +31(0)20 522 4466 www.onehippo.com
