Open source library development

[mcpierce]

Wanted to start a conversion about developing open source libraries to support the format selected.

What would be the languages to start? My projects Java so I'd be glad to be a reference implementation for building and testing the format, but would need to identify a reader that can do the remote side of providing POC.

[gotson]

Hey, thanks for starting this discussion.

It might be a bit early to start coding though, the data model didn't really get much feedback from the community yet.

There should also be discussions on the container format, like which should be supported, or maybe multiple ones?

Indeed an open source library that provides consistent behaviour, and could also support existing formats for conversion, could be very interesting!

I just ran into that kind of issues recently with Komga, where edge cases for comicinfo.xml has to be handled. For example tags that are present, but with empty values. It's the small annoying things that make the use of a library on top of a simple xml parser worth it IMHO.