Consider moving Fidget to its own repo?

[ross-spencer]

There are log4j dependencies in Fidget, dependabot seems to be returning these files.

Related to #9 perhaps migrating it into its own repository would be a logical start, then the format-corpus would be more independently a standalone format corpus?

Whether it is moved or not, there's a wiki page, but most of the information there looks like it would fit into the fidget README.md which seems like the first place folks might look for that? (If it is moved then those pages would need fixing up)

• https://github.com/openpreserve/format-corpus/wiki/Using-Fidget
• Also linked to from: https://github.com/openpreserve/format-corpus/wiki

[anjackson]

Yeah, I mean, it's log4j 1 not 2, but that's not great either. Perhaps the whole tools section should just be deleted? Is anyone using any of it? I'm unlikely to have much time to look after the parts I wrote, and if no-one else is using it then maybe it's best to let it go.

I'll ping @bitsgalore as I see some commits from him in the tools area, in case he's using them.

[bitsgalore]

OK, almost 4 years since @anjackson's message and I'm only seeing this now (which makes me wonder if the Github notifications feature is completely broken now)!

Meanwhile there's also this related (I think?) pull request (from December 2023!) by @JLLeitschuh, which I hadn't noticed before either:

#23

Tbh I don't really know what any of the stuff in the tools directory does/is (including Fidget), but everything there looks proper ancient!

Personally I'd be happy to get rid of the tools dir and everything in it, but I don't know how this might impact any existing OPF services. Since OPF is ultimately the owner of this repo, perhaps @carlwilson can weigh in on this?

[ross-spencer]

@bitsgalore acknowledging this was seen via notification! 😅

I guess Fidget is like TrID for signature generation, but Java?

[anjackson]

@ross-spencer Yes, I think that was the general idea, a long time ago, before I had heard of/understood TrID, I think!

I prepped a PR to move this into a separate repo, and will prep a PR to drop it from here.

[anjackson]

Note that the wiki page(s) referencing the tools should be moved over too. Probably as plain files or just in the README.

EDIT I added the Fidget wiki page to the PR on format-corpus-tools openpreserve/format-corpus-tools#1 but the wiki will need updating https://github.com/openpreserve/format-corpus/wiki

[bitsgalore]

@anjackson Thanks, I just merged your PR!