Is this library actively maintained?

[mattraibert]

My company is looking to process epubs in java and this lib looks like the right solution for us. But it looks like it hasn't been maintained in over a year, and as far as I can tell, it's never been published to any maven repository.

Would it be unwelcome if we make our own fork and do maintenance over there?

[itsmemarioss]

I think it would be great, but I don't know anything about the licence. I created an issue months ago and I closed it myself. I need this library in a personal project, so I think it is a good idea. And I would like to contribute with this as soon as possible.

[outsideMyBox]

It seems it's not maintained anymore but there may be forks you could base your development on, especially if you need epub3 support. For example I based mine on https://github.com/bkromhout/epublib

[mattraibert]

@sharpmario Thanks for saying you'd like to contribute! As for the license, it looks like the original author intended for it to be covered by the LGPL (http://www.siegmann.nl/epublib/license). I think that'd be fine for us, so that's good news.

[itsmemarioss]

Nice @mattraibert , let me know if you're gonna follow through on this plan.

[cene-co-za]

Let us know where you go :)

[jeasterling]

I would love someone to lead the pack… I’ve done a hack or two to make it more reader friendly by no means ePub3.. and there is no Java libs, most of them say convert to html and then run thru Adobe…. I HATE that idea for what is basically a zip file…

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[mattraibert]

@outsideMyBox Thanks for the tip about that fork. From looking at the diff, this seems to be a pretty substantial re-write. That makes it pretty hard to tell what the changes do. I think I'm going to start by forking Paul's library as it is, and then I'll try to spend time pulling improvements from other forks. If you wanted to make it easier by breaking up the changes into coherent pull requests, that would be super helpful, and probably speed it up on my end. But we'll figure it out one way or the other.

[outsideMyBox]

Be aware though that, as far as I remember, many changes were related to the support of epub3. so you may need to reimplement them from scratch.

[mattraibert]

FYI, fork is at: https://github.com/positiondev/epublib
Now released at: compile(group: 'com.positiondev.epublib', name: 'epublib-core', version: '3.1')

[mattraibert]

@outsideMyBox I think there's a good chance I'm going to accept those changes wholesale, I just want a chance to write some tests and review them first. Let me know if you have any insights that might help.

[uqs]

... and https://github.com/positiondev/epublib has now been archived. :(