Hi, My +1
2014-06-20 14:48 GMT+02:00 Chris Bowditch <bowditch_ch...@hotmail.com>: > Yes I did argue against an upgrade to 1.6 for the reasons stated at that > time, i.e. improved annotation support. However, nearly another year on, > Java 8 has been out for a while and additional reasons to upgrade emerge, > i.e. allow us to leverage PDFBox improvements. Therefore, I'm +1 on going to > 1.6. > > However, I'm -1 on rushing to 7 or 8 for the reasons previously stated. FOP > is a server process who user base will expect to run on a variety of > different older operating systems including some mainframe systems, where > upgrading Java requires the installation of many o/s patches. It can be very > difficult to get approval to upgrade the o/s on such systems and therefore > make it very difficult to move to newer versions of Java on such systems. So > until they catch up a bit and there is a compelling reason to go to 7 or 8, > I say moving to 1.6 for the imminent v2.0 release is a good plan. > > BTW, I think we should keep general@ in the loop as this decision has an > impact on all the sub projects in XML Graphics umbrella > > On 18/06/2014 14:20, Simon Steiner wrote: >> >> As part of the work on merging fonts in PDFs: >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2302 >> >> I am using PDFBox 2.0 instead of 1.8 since that version has switched from >> AWT to its own fontfile parser/renderer to give better support for different >> fonts. >> >> This version requires Java 6 but FOP is currently supporting Java 5, does >> Java 5 still need to be supported? -- pascal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
