Message from Martin about a new Oxygen issue:
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From: Martin Holmes
Date: Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 8:33 AM
Subject: Oxygen plugin issue for Council to discuss
To: Hugh Cayless
Cc: Ron Van den Branden
Hi Hugh,
There's a potential compatibility issue with the oxygen-tei framework,
arising out of this:
https://github.com/TEIC/oxygen-tei/pull/9
Briefly:
- Oxygen 18 changed some jar file versions, which broke the JTEI PDF
generation task;
- Ron fixed that, and added some additional future-proofing by using
wildcards in the framework libraries configuration;
- That works great for Oxygen 18 and 18.1, but fails on earlier versions
of Oxygen which do not support wildcard-expansion in library paths;
- So far there's no obvious solution.
We have a couple of options:
1. Allow the JTEI PDF export to be broken for 18.x and above.
2. Allow it to be broken for 17.x and below.
3. Set a version limit on the framework which prevents its being installed
on anything below 18.0.
#3 would leave existing users of older Oxygens with a framework which could
not be updated. #2 would affect only those users who have an older Oxygen
but still want to do PDF export from JTEI. This is a small number of
people, and seems to me the best option. Council should obviously decide on
this.
Ron, have I summarized correctly? Is there anything I've forgotten?
Cheers,
Martin
