Hi Vincent,
On 23/07/2014 10:15, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
Hi Chris,
On 23/07/14 10:06, Chris Bowditch wrote:
Hi Vincent,
On 17/07/2014 12:59, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
Hi All,
(Moving to general@ as not only FOP is involved.)
I should be able to spare some cycles over the next few weeks to do
a release of XGC, Batik and FOP. The new versions would be:
• XGC 1.6
• Batik 1.8
• FOP 2.0
The minimum supported JRE for all projects would be 1.5.
I thought in previous discussions the PMC approved the upgrade to
Java 6? I'm
not sure if anyone has committed any 1.6 specific changes between now
and
then, but if they have then a final release based on 1.5 won't be
possible.
Yes, it’s agreed that 1.6 features can now be introduced to trunk. But
IIC that hasn’t happened yet. So if I am able to build the release with
a 1.5 JDK, I might as well do so. Otherwise we’ll just increase the
minimum requirement in the release announcement.
As Manuel mentioned we should use the opportunity of a major release to
bump the JDK requirement.
Here’s my view: Branches would be created from the trunks as of now
+ whatever has been committed at the time they are created. That means
that no existing issue would be required to be solved first (and that
all of the open FOP issues currently rated as blocker and critical can
be downgraded to major).
If anybody thinks that some issues/features ought to be
fixed/integrated
in one of the projects before the releases, please mention it now so
that we can discuss it. At any rate I won’t start anything before Wed
30th July.
Which version of pdfbox will users of font merging feature or
pdf-plugin be
expected to use? My understanding is that its a 2.0 snapshot
currently, so we
might need to wait until PDFbox release that version, before doing
the release.
AFAIU FOP only depends on FontBox 1.8.5, so it can be released now. If
users want to use the PDF Images plug-in, then that’s another story.
They would have to use a snapshot version of FontBox instead, as well as
the plug-in for that matter.
But since that plug-in has never been released, and is not documented on
the website, I doubt that there are many people outside of the core
developer group who are using it.
We've received a few user questions in the past on this topic. I agree
we need to create a website for pdf-plugin, since Jeremias transferred
the code to the XML Graphics umbrella.
FOP doesn’t depend on the plug-in to deliver its core functionality
anyway, so it can be released independently.
I agree the core functionality has no PDFBox dependency, but one of the
key features of the release is font merging. So I prefer to either;
1. release with a snapshot dependency of fontbox-2.0 and a note on the
website about which SVN revision of pdfbox is required or
2. wait until PDFBox v2.0 is released before releasing FOP
Otherwise, the new font merging feature is unavailable to the average
user. We've had several discussion with people about the desire for font
merging in conjunction with pdf plugin, so I'm sure people will want the
feature.
We could (should) talk about creating a release and a website for the
plug-in. If the code before the FontMerging change still is compatible
with FOP’s current trunk, then it would have only released dependencies
and we could deliver a version that would remain compatible with FOP
2.0. But I’m not sure I’ll have the time to do all the checks and the
work.
Thanks,
Chris
Vincent
Any comment, suggestion?
Thanks,
Vincent
Thanks,
Chris
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