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Fred Hansen commented on PDFBOX-1684:
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When I remembered that commits have comments, I felt silly about my question;
although I am proud that it prompted creation of a new tag. The question is,
however, part of a larger question: where are the plans and specs for 2.0. I
have in mind not only that there is a "breaking-change" label. For instance,
the statement that 2.0 allows Java 1.6. What are the remodularization plans?
What new packages will exist? What new PDF features will be supported? What PDF
features are to be left unimplemented? The "Ideas" page
(http://pdfbox.apache.org/ideas.html) might be the place for all this or
perhaps a new page is needed.
> DateConverter source is in three places and has diverged
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> Key: PDFBOX-1684
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1684
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Utilities
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Environment: Win 8, maven 3.0.5, svn 1.7.8 (r1419691), javac 1.7.0_25
> Reporter: Fred Hansen
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: Breaking-Change
> Fix For: 2.0.0
>
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> Versions of DateConverter,java are in three (3) packages: jempbox.impl,
> pdfbox.util, and xmpbox. They have diverged as updates have been made to one
> or the other.
> Date Converter is used in these modules:
> jempbox.xmp.ResourceEvent.java
> jempbox.xmp.XMPSchema.java
> pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary.java
> pdfbox.pdmodel.fdf.FDFAnnotation.java
> preflight.metadata.SynchronizedMetaDataValidation.java
> xmpbox.type.DateType.java
> The smallest library is xmpbox, so let's consider it as a home for
> DateConverter. Preflight already imports xmpbox. Pdfbox requires jempbox, so
> importing xmpbox into jempbox will satisfy both. Since xmpbox defines some
> xmp features, it seems likely that jempbox could take further advantage of
> xmpbox.
> { incorrect: Conclusion and recommendation: have a single copy of
> DateConverter in xmpbox. }
> Conclusion: create another top-level pdfbox package for DateConverter and
> other utilities that do not depend on pdfbox classes.
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