Bug 462342
| Summary: | Review Request: crimson - Java XML parser | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | John Guthrie <mathguthrie> |
| Component: | Package Review | Assignee: | Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | fedora-package-review, notting |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-03-31 23:21:08 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 201449 | ||
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Description
John Guthrie
2008-09-15 14:44:41 UTC
AFAIK, the crimson project was hibernated by its upstream in 2002. Is there some app that specifically requires crimson that cannot with reasonable effort be changed to e.g. use an "alive" XML parser library, or better yet, standard JAXP? Yes. I have been able to get freemind-0.9.0-Beta_20 to work quite well. (This package is part of a push on my part to get FreeMind into Fedora.) However, it does have crimson as a dependency. Crimson is listed in some of the classpaths. I have no idea how difficult it would be to get freemind to use a different library. Although freemind does use jobx and has some what look like outdated jaxp references listed in some of its various classpaths. I am still trying to ascertain how critical crimson is to FreeMind. (In reply to comment #2) > I am still > trying to ascertain how critical crimson is to FreeMind. I have sent a request to the freemind-developers list asking if it is possible to at least ignore, if not remove the crimson dependency from FreeMind. After taking a closer look at FreeMind, the only dependencies that it may have on crimson are classpath deps. The string "crimson" does not occur anywhere in the source code. I would expect at least one occurrence if it were a real dependency. You can see the reply to my question here: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2249090&forum_id=22101 So it looks like it might be worth our while to see if we can remove the dependency on crimson from freemind. That would obviate the need for this package review request... So, six months later, what should happen here? Is there any need for this package? No response; closing. |