Hi,

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Martinez, Mel - 1004 - MITLL
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Jukka - It isn't about what I 'want' to go through.

Yeah, sorry for picking on you specifically. My point is that what
you're describing is a rather high level of oversight that isn't
mandatory or even desirable for the average PDFBox user. Thus while I
do understand your reluctance on new dependencies (even test ones), in
the bigger picture it seems to me like a rather marginal concern when
balanced against the potential benefit to all PDFBox users through
better test coverage.

> As I said before, the committers have final say, not I.  If this gets added,
> then when we upgrade to that version of PDFBox, we will simply have to go
> through the necessary bureaucratic hoops.

Note that PDFBox 1.7 will in any case have a lot of new code and
dependencies thanks to the recent integration of the preflight and
xmpbox components.

Anyway, if you want to avoid the extra test dependency, I suggest you
look at the patch Rey's planning to submit and then submit a followup
patch that modifies the new test cases to not require the mock
library. That's the Apache way of resolving conflicts like these.

BR,

Jukka Zitting

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