Can anyone with CNI experience please help with this bug? I have heard of lots of people using pdftk and it would be nice if it was available in Fedora.
Andrew
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471811
Orcan 'oget' Ogetbil oget.fedora@gmail.com changed:
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--- Comment #9 from Orcan 'oget' Ogetbil oget.fedora@gmail.com 2009-01-24 21:37:32 EDT --- Well, nobody stepped up to patch neither itext nor pdftk to make pdftk link to our itext dynamically. This task is rather involved as it will require JNI knowledge and possibly some java fixes within pdftk which might be incompatible with the current version of itext and bouncycastle we have. I am no java programmer.
But I got several user requests at fedoraforum to package pdftk. We can do this at rpmfusion. If someone does the necessary work (and keeps doing it for every itext update), we'll drop pdftk from rpmfusion and put it back here.
Jochen, would you like to do the packaging at rpmfusion (I will review it there) or do you want me to do it?
Closing the bug as WONTFIX.
Andrew Overholt wrote:
Can anyone with CNI experience please help with this bug? I have heard of lots of people using pdftk and it would be nice if it was available in Fedora.
Well, I understand CNI well enough but I can't understand what the problem is supposed to be.
Andrew.
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471811
Orcan 'oget' Ogetbil oget.fedora@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added
Status|NEW |CLOSED Resolution| |WONTFIX
--- Comment #9 from Orcan 'oget' Ogetbil oget.fedora@gmail.com 2009-01-24 21:37:32 EDT --- Well, nobody stepped up to patch neither itext nor pdftk to make pdftk link to our itext dynamically. This task is rather involved as it will require JNI knowledge and possibly some java fixes within pdftk which might be incompatible with the current version of itext and bouncycastle we have. I am no java programmer.
But I got several user requests at fedoraforum to package pdftk. We can do this at rpmfusion. If someone does the necessary work (and keeps doing it for every itext update), we'll drop pdftk from rpmfusion and put it back here.
Jochen, would you like to do the packaging at rpmfusion (I will review it there) or do you want me to do it?
Closing the bug as WONTFIX.
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* Andrew Haley aph@redhat.com [2009-02-02 07:45]:
Andrew Overholt wrote:
Can anyone with CNI experience please help with this bug? I have heard of lots of people using pdftk and it would be nice if it was available in Fedora.
Well, I understand CNI well enough but I can't understand what the problem is supposed to be.
I'll try to explain it as I understand it:
- pdftk is compiled by gcj using the C++ ABI, direct to native code - iText is compiled to bytecode (and GCJ AOT .sos) - pdftk used to bundle its own copy of iText; this isn't allowed by Fedora - pdftk needs iText to provide a C++-style .so for linking
HTH,
Andrew
Andrew Overholt wrote:
- Andrew Haley aph@redhat.com [2009-02-02 07:45]:
Andrew Overholt wrote:
Can anyone with CNI experience please help with this bug? I have heard of lots of people using pdftk and it would be nice if it was available in Fedora.
Well, I understand CNI well enough but I can't understand what the problem is supposed to be.
I'll try to explain it as I understand it:
- pdftk is compiled by gcj using the C++ ABI, direct to native code
- iText is compiled to bytecode (and GCJ AOT .sos)
- pdftk used to bundle its own copy of iText; this isn't allowed by Fedora
- pdftk needs iText to provide a C++-style .so for linking
OK, so all we need is a version of iText that is suitable for CNI. Is there any reason not to add a subpackage of iText which provides such a thing? Apart from the effort of doing it, I mean; I just wonder if there is any technical reason why not.
Andrew.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
Andrew Overholt wrote:
- Andrew Haley [2009-02-02 07:45]:
Andrew Overholt wrote:
Can anyone with CNI experience please help with this bug? I have heard of lots of people using pdftk and it would be nice if it was available in Fedora.
Well, I understand CNI well enough but I can't understand what the problem is supposed to be.
I'll try to explain it as I understand it:
- pdftk is compiled by gcj using the C++ ABI, direct to native code
- iText is compiled to bytecode (and GCJ AOT .sos)
- pdftk used to bundle its own copy of iText; this isn't allowed by Fedora
- pdftk needs iText to provide a C++-style .so for linking
OK, so all we need is a version of iText that is suitable for CNI. Is there any reason not to add a subpackage of iText which provides such a thing? Apart from the effort of doing it, I mean; I just wonder if there is any technical reason why not.
No, there's no other reason. I asked for this many times and nobody with CNI knowledge was willing to do it. As I stated before, I will be glad to give comaintainership in pkgdb to anyone who wants to show the effort.
By the way, again as I stated before, itext needs bouncycastle, bouncycastle-mail, pdf-renderer and dom4j. So those will probably need to be CNI'ed as well. I'm the maintainer of the first 3 and can grant comaintainership for them, but not for dom4j.
Orcan
* Andrew Haley aph@redhat.com [2009-02-02 12:52]:
Andrew Overholt wrote:
- pdftk is compiled by gcj using the C++ ABI, direct to native code
- iText is compiled to bytecode (and GCJ AOT .sos)
- pdftk used to bundle its own copy of iText; this isn't allowed by Fedora
- pdftk needs iText to provide a C++-style .so for linking
OK, so all we need is a version of iText that is suitable for CNI.
Correct.
Is there any reason not to add a subpackage of iText which provides such a thing?
Not that I can think of.
Andrew
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