Spec URL: http://www.guthrie.info/RPMS/f9/crimson.spec SRPM URL: http://www.guthrie.info/RPMS/f9/crimson-1.1.3-17.2.fc9.src.rpm Description: Crimson is a Java XML parser which supports XML 1.0 via the following APIs: - Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.1 minus the javax.xml.transform package. JAXP is a pluggable API that allows applications to access XML documents in a parser-independent manner. It endorses the industry standard SAX and DOM APIs and also adds a few classes under the javax.xml.parsers package to implement pluggability and utility methods Note: the javax.xml.transform package hierarchy of JAXP is not implemented by Crimson. One implementation of javax.xml.transform can be found at Xalan Java 2. - SAX 2.0 - SAX2 Extensions version 1.0 - DOM Level 2 Core Recommendation
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 Although freemind does use jobx and has some what look like outdated jaxp references listed in some of its various classpaths.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.