+1 Cheers!
Clay -- "My religion is simple. My religion is kindness." - HH The Dalai Lama of Tibet > On Jun 20, 2014, at 5:48 AM, Chris Bowditch <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Simon, > > 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 > > Thanks, > > Chris > >> On 18/06/2014 14:20, Simon Steiner wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> 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? >> >> Thanks >
