I think that one good selling point for LO is that it can be the VLC of documents, meaning that it can/should handle anything you throw at it.
If we migrate things to an extension, that'd not be a big deal, but then that is like transforming VLC into gstreamer. It requires a tiny bit more work to get it to work for your use case. Is there a way to modularize it enough so that we could have a LO 'light' and a LO 'full' release? -- Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India On Sat 20 Aug 2011 11:55:54 AM IST, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai > <kami...@gmail.com> wrote: >> HI! >> >> On 2011-05-31 10:46, Michael Meeks wrote: >>> Come LibreOffice 4 the plan is to rip out the legacy staroffice binary >>> formats import filter to avoid the maintenance burden, build time, and >>> download size. If someone does the work to maintain it and/or turn it >>> into an extension is up to them - there is no-one stopping that. >>> Perhaps by whacking vcl, basic, svtools, framework, connectivity etc. >>> and statically linking them into there we can make it much more self >>> contained anyway. ATB, Michael. > >> Whit this changes how many workhour, > presumably not that much since no-one is working on it... but still > now and again a change in core trigger a breakage in binfitler that > need fixing... > Of course that is not counting the work hours that would have to be > expended when someone report that there are actually broken and need > fixing... > nor is that counting the hours spent testing it (if we deliver it an > claim to support it, there should be some QA on it right? ) > >> build time, > On my linux tinbuild, with perfect ccache hit, buidling that represent > a 12% increase on the build time of that box. > >> download size > On Mac, about 30MB, Linux about 35MB. > >> can be saved per release? > > Norbert > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
