| [mylyn-docs-dev] EPUB tools will be bumped to version 3.0 |
Hi all, Just a little heads up. I’m bumping the version number of the EPUB tools to version 3.0. The reason for this is that I’ve started to add EPUB 3 support which require a few API breaking changes. There are only a few reading systems that supports the new standard, even several years after it was published. However some publishers have begun to publish “forward compatible” books [1]. These are EPUB 3 publications that include EPUB 2 elements and files so that they can be opened by reading systems that only support EPUB 2. The current implementation of the EPUB tools is very strict about what it thinks it can read, so my first step is to add support for these kind of publications [2]. Most users of the tools use it to write publications but it’s sometimes useful to read them too. Also there is an experimental EPUB reader based on Eclipse that uses this API [3]. So that’s the motivation. Time permitting; I’m hoping to be able to add full support for EPUB 3 in the Mylyn Docs 2.6 release which I believe is in September. Best regards, Torkild [1] http://toc.oreilly.com/2013/02/oreillys-journey-to-epub-3.html [2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=472540 [3] https://github.com/turesheim/elibrarium -- Torkild Ulvøy Resheim Consultant / Eclipse Committer / Senior Software Developer Itema AS - http://itema.no
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