On 12 February 2015 at 03:47, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 on Peter's offer to provide skeletons with TODO comments everywhere. > I agree on this.....but instead of just talking let us get something done, Peter and I cannot do it all, just because others make plans, we need ALL to work on it. rgds jan i. > > 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) > > [ ... ] > > >
