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OpenPDF is a free Java library for creating and editing PDF files, with a LGPL and MPL open source license. OpenPDF is based on a fork of iText. We welcome contributions from other developers. Please feel free to submit pull-requests and bugreports to this GitHub repository.
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Change package name to com.github.librepdf #29

Closed renber closed 7 years ago

renber commented 7 years ago

Since the maven groupId and the java package name of the library have nothing in common now, wouldn't it be better to move all class from com.lowagie to com.github.librepdf / com.github.librepdf.openpdf?

ghost commented 7 years ago

Yes. We could change the package name at some point. However, as this will cause trouble for existing users of OpenPDF, I do not want to do this change yet.

renber commented 7 years ago

Maybe this can be done with a potential 2.0 release? Provided enough differences to the basic itext exist then, setting this library apart.

ghost commented 7 years ago

Yes, possibly. I'm thinking this could happen in 2018 or 2019. We need more users of OpenPDF still first. Once OpenPDF is well established as the main dominating development branch for this code-base, then possibly the package name could be changed, iff the users wants it. There are few reasons why the end-users of OpenPDF should care very much for the package name, though.

A start would be to convince the Flyingsaucer project to switch to OpenPDF. Any help with that can be done here: https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer/pull/123

ghost commented 7 years ago

Thanks for reporting this. I am closing this issue now, and will revisit this issue again in 2019. The main reason for closing is that I want to keep stable API compatibility for a longer period of time.