[brailleblaster] Re: BrailleBlaster download size
- From: "John Gardner" <john.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 07:44:15 -0700
Michael, the original specs called for supporting such popular formats. My
thought is that it is very important to support the docx format initially
but that non-xml formats could be postponed to version 2. Or at least 1.1.
John G
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[mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Whapples
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 11:24 PM
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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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