On 14.03.2005 20:43:15 Simon Pepping wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:05:40AM +0100, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > I'd like to propose moving all of the remaining hyphenation patterns to > > http://offo.sourceforge.net. Various reasons: > > - One-stop shop for all FOP hyphenation patterns > > - Most patterns are completely unproblematic from a license perspective > > but not from a Apache license policy perspective. > > - There are still items on the todo list for making some of the > > remaining patterns fully compliant with Apache license policy and I'm > > tired of running behind them. See [1] > > - We only have a somewhat special set of patterns remaining here (at > > least from my POV) > > +1 > > > Of course, that means we don't provide hyphenation out-of-the-box > > anymore but if offo can provide a recompiled JAR that would make things > > a lot easier of our users. The only problem with this, however, is that > > they are likely not going to check the licenses for each and every > > pattern for compatibility with the system they are using them with. > > The licenses are on the OFFO home page and in the package. That is all > we can and need to do. > > I am not sure how the compilation is supposed to be done. It is a data > dump of a HyphenationTree object. If one makes a small change to that > class, the compiled objects are invalidated. Of course, that is not > relevant for a released distribution. So one should make a compilation > per released distribution?
That's what I imagine, yes. Or we compile the patterns on the fly, if necessery with a persistent cache. That would be very user-friendly. > I have quickly checked PatternParser. I seems easy to adapt the code > to load the OOo patterns as well. It is only a matter of input format; > the hard work is not affected. Good news! Thanks for checking. Jeremias Maerki
