Hi, Another proposal for public consideration:
There seem to be an awful lot of static main methods around the fonts and hyphenation packages, I was wondering if anyone had any objections to moving all these methods into classes under a single package i.e. org.apache.fop.cli.utils. This would involve more than merely copy/pasting the main method itself, but also some of the ancillary methods that are only used by static main methods. Obviously, this would include updating the documentation to reflect the migration. The reason I'm making this proposition is that I'm trying to unify the URI resolution and file access within FOP, we currently use 5 URI resolvers, without including what XMLGraphics and Batik do, (FOURIResolver, FontResolver, HyphenationTreeResolver, DataURIResolver, DTDEntityResolver) which I think we can all agree is a little excessive. In so doing, I keep bumping up against these static main methods or functions that are only called by them, and it seems to me that while I'm at it, I might as well do some clean up. Anyways your collective thoughts would be appreciated on the matter, Mehdi
