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Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 07:46:28 +0200
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Hi,

Am 23.05.2012 23:17, schrieb Jukka Zitting:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Leleu Eric<eric.leleu.dev@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 1 - Postpone the release until an unknown date.
>
> -1 We have code in other parts of PDFBox that should already be released.
>
>> 2 - Make the 1.7 release excluding the preflight module (and XMPBox ?) from
>> the reactor pom. A Warning in the README.txt explains why the module isn't
>> deployed in 1.7.
>
> Sounds like a reasonable solution as preflight wasn't yet included in
> 1.6 so we're not taking anything away.
>
> The note in README and/or release notes can refer to the new
> component(s) as a "technology preview" that's still being worked on
> and thus doesn't yet come with the usual stability and backwards
> compatibility guarantees.
OK, so it seems that we have lazy consensus about the content of the next 
release. :-)

I'm going to cut the release today in evening, that's about 12 hours for now. 
I'll exclude both preflight packages and add a note to the README and release notes.

> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting

Thanks for your input!!

BR
Andreas Lehmk�hler