Re: MS Word

Shaw Terwilliger (sterwill@postman.abisource.com)
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:31:48 -0500


Paul Rohr wrote:
> Have you and Shaw figured out yet how you're going to merge in his changes
> from the hacked version to make sure everything works on other platforms?
> (I think this was mostly makefile changes, but I haven't looked.)

I think there wer just a few changes to the Makefiles to integrate
them into our larger tree and to get them to build elsewhere.
I'm expecting this will be a simple job best started with
rm -rf abi/src/other/libmswordview. :)

> We're thrilled about the work Caolan's doing to concentrate all of that
> expertise into the wv library. As soon as that effort stabilizes and we can
> wrap a reliable importer around it, we definitely plan to upgrade to it.
> The fact that we've had to rely on the existing "hack" for so long has been
> more than mildly embarrassing. :-)

Yeah, it was a day or two spent capping off the output into
(inefficient) in-memory buffers and changing HTML to our XML. :)
And it became a nightmare to maintain... all along we knew we wanted
a real importer interface and I'm really impressed at the work
Caolan's done.

-- 
Shaw Terwilliger


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