Re: Upgrading Batik

Brian M Dube wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 12:44:13PM +1100, David Crossley wrote:
> > Brian M Dube wrote:
> > > The Jing discussion reminded me of upgrading Batik. We currently
> > > package batik-all-1.6.jar. Batik 1.7 does not ship an -all jar. Did
> > > Cocoon or Forrest build a custom jar out of the modules that Batik
> > > ships?
> > 
> > Forrest would have obtained that as-is from Cocoon
> > at the time of an etc/cocoon_upgrade process.
> > 
> > The svn log over in the Cocoon branch shows that it was
> > Antonio (2005-05-23) who commited it there. This gave me some
> > search clues and so found this around our 0.6 release:
> > 
> > http://s.apache.org/qx8
> > Subject: Re: REsizing batik to a minimum for us.
> > Date: May 27, 2004
> > 
> > -David
> 
> I see. Thanks.
> 
> Creating a batik-all-1.7.jar and copying it to forrest/lib/core in
> place of 1.6 causes problems which I'm having trouble diagnosing. I've
> also tried rebuilding the cocoon-batik-block against Batik 1.7, and it
> didn't help.
> 
> I'll try a few more things, but this update may not make it into the
> release. Help is welcome.

See issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1221
and our packaged Batik was upgraded as part of upgrading our Cocoon
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1240

-David