[brailleblaster] Re: BrailleBlaster download size
- From: "Vic Beckley" <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 08:10:29 -0400
Michael,
Thanks. I didn't realize that. In my tests it does indeed compile fine and
work fine without the tika.jar file.
Best regards from Ohio,
Vic
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[mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Whapples
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 2:24 AM
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Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: BrailleBlaster download size
Last week I made a installer version for ViewPlus and as the Tika
dependency was not listed on the BrailleBlaster website or in the README
files I did not include it. There was no compilation issues so I take it
that it must not be used and thus can be safely removed.
However, this does raise a wider question: What formats do we wish to
support? Probably really what I am getting at, do we wish to support
non-XML formats such as the old binary Word document format (.doc) or
PDF being another popular format I can think of. I feel it would be
unwise to ignore these formats, even if we are converting them to an XML
format behind the scenes, I feel the user might expect to just be able
to open some of these non-XML formats.
Michael Whapples
On 28/05/2013 06:00, John J. Boyer wrote:
> I think it should be removed. If we want to import docx files we can use
> the content document which is xml and which liblouisutdml can handle.
> Making a semantic-action file for it would be easy.
>
> John
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:50:47AM -0400, Vic Beckley wrote:
>> Keith,
>>
>> This may not be possible but I was thinking that since we aren't using
the
>> tika-app-1.1.jar file now that it could be removed from the package
before
>> the beta is released. The entire installer for Windows is about 30 MB,
with
>> that one file taking up approximately 25 MB of that total size. Removing
it
>> would significantly reduce the size of BrailleBlaster. I don't know at
this
>> point if the decision has been made whether we are going to use this file
>> later on or not. Any thoughts?
>>
>>
>> Best regards from Ohio,
>>
>> Vic
>>
>>
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