Yes, if you changed IF on me I'd need to know. I embed postscript commands in headers and page sequences.
That said - if you are talking the java side of it versus the file format itself that doesn't affect me (but of course it may others) Thanks Martin --------------- Martin Edge --------------- On 04/04/2012, at 5:54 AM, Jeremias Maerki <[email protected]> wrote: > Glenn, > I see the IF API as an advanced use case for FOP. I've realized from the > beginning that the IF might have to mature over time and that requires > changes. My main concern in the whole discussion is stability for the > large majority of FOP's users who just rely directly or indirecly (in > the case of XML editors and such) on relatively easy upgrades, > especially if FOP can one day be released more often (with an easier > release process). > > Just a thought loosely related to this: maybe we should introduce a > "version" attribute on the root element to indicate the version of IF > XML format so people can deal more easily with that. > > Maybe there should be a registry of FOP's APIs and the stability policy > for each. > > On 02.04.2012 17:15:58 Glenn Adams wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Jeremias Maerki >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> There must be a really, really good reason to change the frontmost >>> public API of FOP in a backwards-incompatible way. Changing the API will >>> cause considerable work for all users when they upgrade. We must not do >>> that on a whim. >>> >> >> Would you consider a minor, but substantive technical change to the IF >> APIs, specifically, to IFPainter, to require a revision of the major >> version? I ask this because one of the arguments to IFPainter.drawText() >> has been changed from int[] to int[][] in the recent complex scripts merge. >> >> In other words, are the IF public APIs to be considered part of the formal >> public FOP API that is subject to version control rules? >> >> Do we have a precise list of which APIs are (or should be) subject to such >> rules? > > > > > Jeremias Maerki >
