On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Guillaume Bailleul <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> * Is it a good idea to create an IOUtils class in Xmpbox to cut >>> dependency to commons-io ? There are no license problem, the choice is >>> between "duplicate code" and "create a dependency for next to nothing" >> >> As long as we're talking about just a relatively small piece of code >> (individual classes) that doesn't require too much maintenance, I >> think it's better to just copy the code. >> > > I created an issue to copy IOUtils to xmpbox [1]. > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1198
While looking into pdfbox sources, I found org.apache.pdfbox.io.IOUtils with that comment : //TODO PDFBox should really use Apache Commons IO. :-) I think we should wait for more opinions before doing PDFBOX-1198. Guillaume
