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Question regarding jar for external nodules vs hul-modules #641

Open asciim0 opened 4 years ago

asciim0 commented 4 years ago

Quick question regarding JHOVE modules. There are two different places where they are stored within the JHOVE architecture – the original hul modules are all in /jhove/jhove-modules/ while PNG. WARC and epub are in a different place altogether. Furthermore – and this is that part that causes us a bit of trouble – module-independent jars exist for the original hul modules but not for the jhove-ext-modules, when downloading the pre-compiled JHOVE, they are all in one shared jar (jhove-ext-modules-1.24.2.jar). We are wondering what the reason for this is and if this could be changed?

Within our infrastructure (Rosetta), we are leveraging JHOVE on a file format group / module basis – it would be helpful if all modules are packaged the same way, i.e., one distinct jar per module and not several packaged in one. Is this something that would be possible in the future? I know that we could most likely compile atomic modules ourselves … but apart from potential developer overhead we would like to have one authoritative jar, delivered through the OPF general release, which all customers can use alike in system integrated and stand-alone manner. Hope this makes sense.

asciim0 commented 3 years ago

Is there any idea when this will be implemented?

asciim0 commented 2 years ago

Asking again whether there are any plans here to change this or if there is a reason for all the jhove-ext-modules to be in one jar?

samalloing commented 2 years ago

Yes, this is also something we are wondering. Seems like this is redundant.

Sam cc @carlwilson

carlwilson commented 2 years ago

We will be separating the external modules in the next JHOVE release.

carlwilson commented 2 years ago

While this had to miss the 1.26 release in order for us to get it out in a reasonable time scale the project structure is the first set of changes we're making for 1.27 development.

asciim0 commented 1 year ago

This didn't seem to make it into the 1.28 RC either, correct? Any idea when this will be expected?

asciim0 commented 1 year ago

Any updates on when this will be delivered? It's become good practice to ask about this at least twice a year ;-P

asciim0 commented 8 months ago

Since it's about that time again (and I have a quarterly call I'm reporting this on) ... any news when this will be delivered?