On 24 October 2010 13:04, Caolán McNamara <caol...@redhat.com> wrote: > The "binfilter" is the filter which is used to import and export the old > StarOffice binary formats, it was created by trying to strip down old > copies of sw/sc/starmath etc. to the minimum required to load/save those > formats and convert them to the ODF format. > > As such its a fairly unloved code base, there's one school of thought to > delete it entirely ;-), and another to try and munge it out of > LibreOffice to be a separately buildable extension that can be quietly > forgotten about. Either way, there's more bang for your buck in looking > at the equivalent current sw/sc/starmath dirs for translations and > fixups.
Thanks Caolán for that info. I probably should have asked before jumping in, it's just I found those dated comments in filters first and started from there. Anyway I've got another patch I'd already done but now I'll move to doing the equivalent files in sw, I'll just look at it as practice! Graeme _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
