On 6/20/05, Daniel d'Andrada Tenório de Carvalho
<daniel.carvalho@indt.org.br> wrote:
> Robert Staudinger wrote:
> > At the moment the code for importing/exporting sxw and odt files is
> > all thogether in the filter. From your mail i read that you are
> > interested in odt only. Therefore it would be good if we either test
> > all odt-related changes with sxw files also, to make sure there are at
> > least no regressions or - cristmas wish - implement the improvements
> > for sxw too. Another option would be to fork the importer and merge
> > changes back to sxw some time (well, noone will realistically do
> > that).
>
> Unfortunately, you're right.
>
> We don't have the necessary resources to develop both OpenDocument
> Text *and* OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text support.
>
> Our proposal is for us to continue working on the OpenWriter filter,
> developing only .odt support but, doing a good will effort so that we
> try not to break .sxw support badly.
>
> IF it proves to be to hard/cumbersome to develop the (for now
> unimplemented) features of OpenDocument Text without breaking
> OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text, we can fork the source code later, if necessary.
I'd say don't hesitate to just copy the whole filter directory to a
new name and start over.
SXW won't gain much significance now that OOo is about to switch and
always taking care not to break things just makes it harder/less
clean/take longer. IMO it's better to have a clean design from the
beginning and have the code do one thing right.
Best regards,
- Rob
Received on Mon Jun 20 16:33:57 2005
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