Hi, On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Nick Burch <apa...@gagravarr.org> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2014, Hong-Thai Nguyen wrote: >> Guava (https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/) provides many >> facilities on text, file, collection ... manipuation. Should we use in Tika? > > Can you give an example of where using Guava would either simplify some > existing code, or improve its effectiveness, or permit something we couldn't > otherwise do?
Also, especially in tika-core we've explicitly avoided any external dependencies to keep it as simple and easy as possible to include as a dependency in client applications. We've even gone as far as including copies of some Commons IO classes in org.apache.tika.io instead of referring to commons-io as a dependency. BR, Jukka Zitting
