Todo: Publish AsciidoctorJ 1.5.5 & asciidoctorj-pdf 1.5.0-alpha.13

Hi,

the last few weeks have seen the release of asciidoctor 1.5.5 and asciidoctorj-pdf 1.5.0-alpha.13.

I'd like to plan to release the Java counterparts and we have some open points to decide before doing so.

Issues to consider are that asciidoctorj-pdf will rely on JRuby 9.1.5.0 and therefore Java 7 while we imo want to stick with JRuby 1.7.25 for asciidoctorj.
That's why asciidoctorj-pdf is to be extracted into an own repository asciidoctor/asciidoctorj-pdf instead of being hosted as part of the asciidoctor/asciidoctorj repo.

Imo the action list looks like this:
- Transfer robertpanzer/asciidoctorj-pdf to the asciidoctor org.
- Publish the asciidoctorj-1.5.5.jar depending on jruby-complete 1.7.25 and therefore having target platform Java 6
- Publish the asciidoctorj-pdf 1.5.0-alpha.13 .jar depending on jruby-complete 9.1.5.0 and therefore having target platform Java7
- Publish the asciidoctorj-1.5.5 distribution containing the new jars and jruby-9.1.5.0 and therefore targeting Java 7.

@mojavelinux: Are you ok to transfer the repo robertpanzer/asciidoctorj-pdf to the asciidoctor org?

Is everybody ok with this approach?

Cheers
Robert

I think this is a good plan!

Thank you for all the work you do for the Asciidoctor(j) community.

The second and fourth point confuse me. Will 1.5.5 have a Java6 and Java7 version?

Yes, I was a bit unclear.

So the published asciidoctorj-1.5.5.jar would still have the target Java 6 and depend on JRuby 1.7.x.
There's only one asciidoctorj-1.5.5.jar available.

The distribution however should contain a new asciidoctorj-pdf and therefore the distribution would switch to Java 7 as target platform meaning it would contain:
- the normal asciidoctorj-1.5.5.jar, which is still compiled for Java 6
- the new asciidoctorj-pdf-1.5.0-alpha.13.jar which would require a JRuby 9.1.5.0
- jruby-complete-9.1.5.0.jar, because asciidoctorj-pdf requires it.

So when embedding asciidoctorj 1.5.5 alone it would still work as before.
Only when using the distribution Java 7 would be required, but therefore the latest and greatest asciidoctorj-pdf would work without having to fiddle with updating jars manually.

Is that a bit clearer?

Cheers
Robert

P.S.: I am still unsure if I should add a runtime dependency from asciidoctorj-pdf to jruby-complete 9.1.5.0 as asciidoctorj 1.6.0 depends on jruby 9.1.5.0 instead of the complete version.

Clear now, thanks!

Cool!

If you or anyone else has other ideas I'd certainly like to discuss them!