I would go for contrib + the dist jars of sfntly . Contrib's stuff is
optional and it is ok to use java 1.6 .
Eventually POI will switch to Java 1.6 and we will move your code to ooxml.

Yegor


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Andreas Beeker <[email protected]>wrote:

> I don't know ... for my ISO-8859-1 requirements I didn't need them. You'll
>>> find my repacked version under ... So it's an extra 280kb ...
>>>
>> Why did you need to repack sfntly? Was it repackaging only or you changed
>> the source code too?
>> I'm fine to include and distribute this library with POI but I'd like it
>> to
>> be an official release, not a fork.
>>
>
> There were a few things I changed / bugged me:
> - sfntly has @override annotations for interfaces which are a java 1.6
> feature. For our websphere environment, we needed a 1.5 library, so I've
> removed all that annotations. I guess, its ok for a contrib to ask for a
> new java environment ... but otherwise it doesn't fit to POIs 1.5 build
> restriction.
> - just checked the sources ... it's a pity, that sfntly still doesn't
> support maven ...
> - just searched for an official binary release of sfntly.jar +
> sfntly-eotconverter.jar ... couldn't find one (sfntly.jar alone is included
> in a few google code projects)
>
> So what you would you prefer?
> - a seperate build in the contrib + .txt-instructions how to get sfntly
> and optionally downgrade it to 1.5 if neccessary
> - contrib + the dist jars of sfntly (java 1.6)
> - the sources in the scratchpad area and build-only jars of sfntly (java
> 1.5)
> - ...
>
> Andi.
>
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