+1 on Peter's offer to provide skeletons with TODO comments everywhere. I'm going to mull over the problem of stability though, based on what I see in what you provide.
Meanwhile, while going through yet one more medical procedure that probably take until next week for recovery, I think I should spend time training myself more in on-line developer courses and looking at peripheral issues not likely to collide with all that Peter is hammering on. It's not like I can't come up with a mountain of things to work on for all of the projects I have itches about [;<). So I shall be on a holding pattern here and do more on my personal learning curve in the meantime. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Peter Kelly [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 16:39 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] ODF Support in Corinthia [ ... ] What I’ll do as soon as I get the chance (hopefully next week) is to lay out a skeleton of the code in the repository, and put TODO comments everywhere, with explanations and references to the corresponding code in the Word filter. This initial skeleton will give us the most basic form of conversion (text only, with no formatting or special objects), and also illustrate how non-supported features are handled (no support for tables yet? no problem - the update code just doesn’t touch them). I’ll try to incrementally document both the Word filter and the general design approach incrementally as I go along; and will do that on the mailing list in the hope of prompting questions and discussions about improvements or alternative designs. [ ... ] So let’s not wait for stability. That’s going to take too long, possibly postponing any new filter development indefinitely. The necessary pieces are already in place for us to begin work on the ODF filter, and I think it’ll be much more practical to deal with problems as we encounter them rather than trying to get a perfect “base” beforehand. -- Dr. Peter M. Kelly [email protected] http://www.kellypmk.net/ PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966) [ ... ]
