On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 07:12:18PM -0300, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > Hi Jani, > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:06:18AM +0200, janI wrote: > > > > I am trying to understand the discussion here, and I miss > > > > something. > > > > > > > > If we do not have libwpd in our 3.4.0 release I assume we have > > > > something else to replace it (or have we removed the feature that > > > > uses libwpd?). > > > > > > answer in https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=120043#c1 > > > > > thx. Now I understand the problems. > > > > Would it btw not be smarter in general to have conversions from > > relative old packages like wordperfect in an extension (as suggested > > in the bug report), that would help reduce the footprint, and users > > can still convert. > > The suggestion quoted there is not realistic: writerfilter depends on > several core libraries > http://hg.services.openoffice.org/OOO340/file/c904c1944462/writerperfect/prj/build.lst > An extension can use only URE libraries, so making an extension out of > writerfilter will require to rewrite the code. > > On the other hand, "re-integrating" libpwd is more than re-integrating > it: the code has changed, writerfilter need modifications (that is, > someone in the know must update the library, it's not simply dumping the > new tar and making it compile).
s/writerfilter/writerperfect/ I couldn't find any reference to libwps, nor libwpg. It seems they are used in LO, which may have better support for this kind of documents. If so, it would make sense to take their code and make a filter extension out of it (or duplicate the work here). Any way, everything in this thread is reduced to the usual "someone (in the know) has to do it". Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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