It all sounds good to me. I was one of those asking for batik-less FOP,
since I needed to output PDF from a headless system (I think we ended
up using the Postscript renderer, and cat'ing it to the printer...).
I also welcome the thought of additional XML Graphics projects. Not so
much for the sake of quantity, but because I hope that additional
projects might bring additional users (folks interested in MathML or
Barcode4J, but not necessarily brought in because of XSL-FO/PDF or
SVG), and eventually additional committers (mmm... fresh blood ;-)).
Web Maestro Clay
On Jul 26, 2005, at 7:26 AM, Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Devs,
I'd like to have your thoughts about the following proposal. MathML and
barcodes are frequently asked for and I would consider it a service to
our users if we provided support for both out-of-the-box without people
having to scratch together the little pieces to make this stuff work.
JEuclid is AL1.1 and Barcode4J is AL2.0 licensed. So no worries about
redistribution. I'd like to promote the MathML extension out of the
examples directory where it seems to be a little hidden. We still have
the "plan" extension as a good example for FOP extensions. But I
wouldn't really want to integrate the MathML extension sources into the
main source tree where it adds to the existing blob of code. I'd rather
make SVG support separate and therefore optional and put both (SVG and
MathML) alongside each other in a separate place next to the main
sources. FOP without Batik-dependency has also been asked for a few
times which we could get almost for free if we did this. Barcode4J 1.0
as my proposed barcode package (what a surprise!) has its own FOP
extension and would simply be added as a JAR file in the lib directory.
I could do the necessary changes while doing the whole XML Graphics
Commons stuff which I really really really want to do really really
soon
now. :-)
Jeremias Maerki
Regards,
Web Maestro Clay
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