Hi, > John Hewson <j...@jahewson.com> hat am 13. Januar 2015 um 19:52 geschrieben: > > > On 10 Jan 2015, at 04:50, Andreas Lehmkuehler <andr...@lehmi.de> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > find attached a quick draft of the board report we're expected to submit > > this > > month. > > > > @John > > Any news about "your" GSoC project? > > Yes, my student is still around and is working on getting the Windows build > working. Bundling native binaries with PDFBox is going to be tricky but we > should be able to reduce it to a single plugin jar. In theory we could use > Apache’s builedbot instances to do cross-platform C++ builds to generate a > multi-binary jar. I’ve set this as a 2.1 issue, because the release process > surrounding this is quite tricky for us - the the OCR plugin does currently > work. Thanks for the information. I didn't add anything about GSoC as there weren't any news.
BR Andreas Lehmkühler > > > > > Any further comments, objections or additions? > > > > > > <draft> > > > > The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF > > documents. > > > > > > General Comments > > ---------------- > > > > There are no issues that require Board attention. > > > > Community > > --------- > > > > There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the > > community. > > > > John Hewson and Tilman Hausherr were added as committers and PMC members to > > our ranks in February 2014. > > > > 493 (481 last report) subscribers on the user@ list > > 149 (155 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list > > > > Releases > > -------- > > > > Version 1.8.8 was released on 13nd of December 2014. It is an incremental > > bugfix release based on PDFBox 1.8.x. > > > > > > Development: > > ------------ > > > > The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics > > are: > > > > - switch to java 1.6 > > - enhance the parser > > - code cleanup > > - enhance rendering > > - enhance font handling > > - add unicode support > > - reduce memory footprint > > > > The long-awaited new major release is still under construction and there is > > still a lot to do. Most of the bigger parts are done so that we see the > > light at the end of the tunnel. > > > > </draft> > > > > BR > > Andreas Lehmkühler >
