[liblouis-liblouisxml] Reliance on runtime environments
- From: Michael Whapples <mwhapples@xxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:27:39 +0000
Hello,
On the page that Christian has created as an option for a website, it
was mentioned that liblouis and liblouisutdml do not require a runtime
as it is written in C so can be used on about any platform.
My dispute/question with that is that liblouisutdml does not have Java
as an optional dependency. One must have Java to compile it, may be
things work fine when running with no Java installation providing one
does not access the Java binding code.
My thought mainly being, does the requirement for Java to compile
liblouisutdml possibly restrict where it can be used?
I think regardless of the answer to the above the Java bindings should
be optional, why have them compiled in if they will not be used. I am
not familiar enough with the build systems (automake or the nmake stuff
for MsVC) to make such a change though (oh for IDEs which get that stuff
right for you almost all the time).
My other question is, if compiling against Java is fine with people
now,then would it be worth considering a higher level language like C++
for liblouisutdml? I must clarify that in suggesting that, this need not
affect liblouis if people want liblouis to remain in plain C.
I just feel that a higher level language might make the document
processing in liblouisutdml simpler.
Michael Whapples
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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