> On 3 Nov 2015, at 03:18, Andreas Lehmkühler <andr...@lehmi.de> wrote: > >> John Hewson <j...@jahewson.com <mailto:j...@jahewson.com>> hat am 2. >> November 2015 um 19:24 geschrieben: >> >> >> >>> On 2 Nov 2015, at 02:58, Andreas Lehmkühler <andr...@lehmi.de> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> John Hewson <j...@jahewson.com> hat am 30. Oktober 2015 um 19:43 >>>> geschrieben: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 30 Oct 2015, at 03:50, Andreas Lehmkühler <andr...@lehmi.de> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> John Hewson <j...@jahewson.com <mailto:j...@jahewson.com>> hat am 30. >>>>>> Oktober 2015 um 08:28 geschrieben: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 30 Oct 2015, at 00:00, Andreas Lehmkuehler <andr...@lehmi.de> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Am 29.10.2015 um 07:34 schrieb John Hewson: >>>>>>>> Hi All, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I see we’ve ended up with both “debugger” and “debugger-app” modules. >>>>>>>> Can >>>>>>>> these be combined? >>>>>>> There are separate jars so that the debugger stuff can be used as >>>>>>> dependency >>>>>>> within other projects. The debugger-app can't be used that way. >>>>>> >>>>>> The main reason for moving the debugger into its own jar was so that it >>>>>> wouldn’t become a dependency of other projects, i.e. so that it remains >>>>>> an >>>>>> API >>>>>> internal to PDFBox, because we have no intention of keeping it stable. >>>>>> That >>>>>> would seem to be in contradiction to the situation here. >>>>> >>>>> I've found another consumer for the debugger.jar: our own standalone app >>>>> contains to debugger as well. >>>> >>>> That explains it. Can’t we combine debugger-app and debugger though? All >>>> that >>>> debugger-app does is add a manifest - why not put than manifest inside the >>>> debugger >>>> jar itself? >>> The app jar contains the manifest and all libs which are needed to run the >>> debugger as standalone app. AFAIKT it can't be combined, as the debugger is >>> used >>> withing the pdfbox app jar which has it's own manifest. >> >> Why bundle the jars together? Shipping them side-by-side is just as good, >> especially as >> the 3rd party jbig2 and jpeg2000 jars (an optionally bouncy castle) have to >> be >> shipped >> on the side to actually provide all libraries that are needed to run the >> debugger. >> >> The same applies to pdfbox-app, I was told that this jar exists so that the >> tools could be >> run, back when they were in that jar, but now the tools are in their own jar, >> yet we still >> have pdfbox-app? Again, because it doesn’t actually bundle the required 3rd >> party jars, >> it’s not actually fulfilling any purpose. >> >> I guess that applies to preflight-app, too. That’s another bundle which is >> actually incomplete. > No, all standalone app jars are as complete as intended. Only some optional > jars > (you've already mentioned jbig2 and jpeg2000) are missing due to their > license. > But those libs aren't needed for all pdfs, so that's not a big problem.
I still don’t see why we have the bundle jars at all - what purpose do they serve? — John > Andreas > >> — John >> >>> BR >>> Andreas >>> >>>> >>>> — John >>>> >>>>> BR >>>>> Andreas >>>>>> >>>>>> — John >>>>>> >>>>>>> BR >>>>>>> Andreas >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> — John >>>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org >>>>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org >>>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org >>>>>> <mailto:dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org> >>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org >>>>>> <mailto:dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org >>>>> <mailto:dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org> >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org >>>>> <mailto:dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org >> <mailto:dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org> >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org >> <mailto:dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org > <mailto:dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org > <mailto:dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org>
