Dear Fridrich and Your Peer-Creators,
I'm just a simple user of WP, and can't thank you guys
enough to get WP included in OpenOffice. I'm really
impressed with your collective eforts.
Bruce Hoffman
Jakarta
--- Fridrich Strba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, nice people,
>
> This is just to give you the good news. As of
> yesterday, the
> libwpdupgrade cws was integrated in the OOo 2.0
> tree. It means not only
> that as of now the OOo is using libwpd-0.8.0, but
> also that it can be
> build using the system libwpd, making thus upgrade
> much less painfull.
>
> These last days were quite stressful for me, since
> the integration of
> our CWS introduced a bad regression where MS Word
> documents and all
> other OLE2 documents were making OOo throw
> exception/crash on certain
> platforms if they passed by our WordPerfect deep
> typedetection.
> Nonetheless, thanks to a big support and help of
> Michael Meeks, we
> managed to handle this situation correctly and there
> is a patch that is
> solving this issue.
>
> On this occasion, we would like to thank William
> Lachance and Marc
> Maurer for the good idea of writing the libwpd
> library and for making it
> such a wonderful piece of software. The thanks go
> also to all the
> developpers of the OOo community, especially Rene
> Engelhard, Michael
> Meeks and Caol�n McNamara for their very valuable
> help in integrating
> the filter into the OOo tree.
>
> We would not want to leave out those contributors
> who contributed with
> their work to the success of the library and import
> filter. Be it by
> providing Mac OSX build of the tools or by writing
> the mapping between
> WordPerfect character set and Unicode.
>
> And last, but not least, our thanks go to all our
> users for their
> encouragement, for reporting bugs and for
> encouraging the development.
> People, it is not over, so stay with us :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Fridrich Strba
> A Happy Man
>
>
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