Re: FOP Release

[Luis Bernardo]

I think that maven will be embraced as soon as there is a volunteer to 
do the transition.

On 4/22/15 6:13 PM, Glenn Adams wrote:


On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Chris Bowditch 
<bowditch_ch...@hotmail.com <mailto:bowditch_ch...@hotmail.com>> wrote:

    I agree, but as Simon pointed out PDFBox is not a dependency of
    FOP, but of PDF plug-in, which is a separate project with a
    separate release cycle. The PDF plug-in project is an optional
    dependency of FOP, not required for core functionality.

    So the proposal is just to release the FOP project, not PDF
    plug-in. This means anyone wishing to use PDF-plugin with the new
    release of FOP would need to build it from source code using a
    PDFBox snaphot. Not ideal, but we are long overdue a FOP release,
    and only a small number of users are using the PDF plug-in. So I'm
    +1 to this proposal.


ok; that works for me... on another point, when can we transition to 
maven? our ant configurations are difficult to maintain and 
understand; we should modernize


    Thanks,

    Chris

    On 22/04/2015 14:28, Glenn Adams wrote:

        I'm not comfortable requiring use of a snapshot dependency.
        For example, that would prevent deployment to maven central.

        On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Chris Bowditch
        <bowditch_ch...@hotmail.com
        <mailto:bowditch_ch...@hotmail.com>
        <mailto:bowditch_ch...@hotmail.com
        <mailto:bowditch_ch...@hotmail.com>>> wrote:

            Hi Glen,

            Its expected that a -1 vote includes a justification. You
        may well
            be right, but we are not mind readers and have no idea
        what you
            are thinking...

            Thanks,

            Chris

            On 21/04/2015 16:32, Glenn Adams wrote:

                -1

                On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Simon Steiner
                <simonsteiner1...@gmail.com
        <mailto:simonsteiner1...@gmail.com>
                <mailto:simonsteiner1...@gmail.com
        <mailto:simonsteiner1...@gmail.com>>
                <mailto:simonsteiner1...@gmail.com
        <mailto:simonsteiner1...@gmail.com>
                <mailto:simonsteiner1...@gmail.com
        <mailto:simonsteiner1...@gmail.com>>>> wrote:

                    Hi,

                    Since Batik and XGC have been released, are we
        ready to
                release FOP?

                    It has been said we can’t release PDF plugin using
        a snapshot
                    release of PDFBox 2.0. PDFBox 1.8 is missing font
        parsing
                    libraries we need for font merging.

                    We could make release a PDF plugin beta release using
                snapshot of
                    PDFBox or ask user to use PDF plugin snapshot
        version with
                FOP 2.0.

                    Thanks