Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

[Markus KARG]

Jörg Schaible schrieb:

Well, probably the development community of the Apache Fop project
can help you. Check the project site [1].

I have asked them.
They don't know.
They even didn't know that FOP is available on that repository.
So someone just put it up there without their knowledge!

Don't be afraid to make
fop-0.20.5.markus1 in your repo that fixes bugs in those poms (and

their dev list).

send the fixed poms to

That's why I asked for the name of the Maintainer. The FOP developers are not the FOP-POM authors. So back to the roots (see subject of this thread): Who is the author of the pom.xml file found at repo1.maven.org?

This does not help, since it is no POM issue! Maven may select the version 
declared in the POM but it does not have to. So it is quite brain dead for any 
library to define a fix classpath in the manifest. Do the devs know with which 
other libs and deps they're users have to be compatible? E.g. we're running FOP 
with complete different avalon artifacts ...

That's wrong. Maven automatically creates the correct Class-Path attributes in the manifest, and it's up to the fop team to decide what third party library versions to use. But yes, there is one exception. FOP has declared some libraries that are not needed in the Class-Path because J2SE already has factories for that (e. g. XML parser). It was wrong by FOP to hard-code e. g. those libraries in the Class-Path while actually its up to the user to adjust the wanted vendor and version by using the J2SE factory customization. But for all other libraries it MUST be the FOP author's decision to choose a vendor and version, since he must assert that the FOP code is able to run with, since users do not know otherwise what third party stuff is needed. That's what the Class-Path was invented and standardized for (see JAR MANIFEST specification).

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