Hi Gennadiy On 03.05.2006 16:14:41 Gennadiy Tsarenkov wrote: > Hello Jeremias, > > I'm not saying that this is simple, I'm just saying pre-conditions, > when we would be able to continue invest our efforts into integration > into FOP. You are absolutely right, saying that there should be > interest of the public community to such a work. At present, we get > first feedback/requests on our work after about 5 month of absolute > silence. This basically means that there is no demand on this feature. > Either peoples are using other solutions or they are simply want to > have additional feature in a list which says MathML support without > any real background for that. > Moreover, what I've learned so far is that FOP is not trying to get > publication ready PDF's (what is my case) rather then readable XML. > Correct me, if I'm wrong.
It's probably more so that people from the business document side are more likely to invest in FOP than those from the publishing department do. But the good news is that one of my clients requests some level of PDF/X support which clearly goes in the direction of publication ready PDFs. > The reasons for rare commits is that on our side there is more then > one developer working on the project. While we do not have any > feedback, we do not update public repository and just using our > private one. There is another weak reason, why I cannot made release > on sourceforge.net. I have only CVS commit rights to the JEuclid > project and cannot make any releases. Then maybe you should see if you can get admin privileges because you'll exclude probably more than 80% of the possible users if you don't do releases. Some people are simply not into getting source code from CVS. The same applies to FOP, BTW, because the license policy dictates that we shall not use unreleased JARs in our releases. Which means we're basically stuck with JEuclid 2.0 for now. > My perception is that we will continue making half-year commits to the > sf.net repository with patched FOP and JEuclid which fully covers our > needs. Not a very promising prospect. That's certainly not how you can attract possible users. > If somebody would be interested for somebody to integrate into > FOP thunk, s/he is welcome. I'll handle that. <snip/> Jeremias Maerki
