On 4/22/13 12:24 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > 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".
exactly and who really cares about this formats? We should better improve the OOXML support and think about an export as well. I would recommend that we don't waste time to discuss something that is not relevant at the moment. It's early enough to discuss when we have something concrete. Juergen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
