Gianluca,
Le Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:08:37 +0100, Gianluca Turconi <m...@letturefantastiche.com> a écrit : > Thanks to you and André for your replies. > > See below for further comments. > > Il 31/10/2010 12.52, Charles-H. Schulz ha scritto: > > [...] > > > I think your question would be better asked to the developers' > > mailing list, but I will nonetheless try to answer it here: > > - there is no extended ODF version, unless of course you refer to > > the "extended" ODF format used in OpenOffice.org. This specific > > version had been enabled and was a vendor specific one because it > > was essentially the subsequent drafts of the ODF 1.2 specification > > that were implemented by OpenOffice.org. Once ODF 1.2 will be fully > > out, there will be no extended version, but only extended as in > > "subsequent draft specification". > > Well, this is the reason why I spoke about *future* LibO version. ;-) > > IMO, it isn't only a question about "better defaults", but a real > turning point for LibO. > > I'll try to clarify my point of view. > > Let's say that by the time ODF 1.2 will be out, every feature > currently supported from LibO will be in ODF specification too. That > would be simply great. > > Then, what? > > Will LibO 4.0/5.0 stay at ODF 1.2 until ODF 2.0 (or whatever version) > will be officially approved, becoming so the "Lingua Franca" in > exchanging documents for people and organizations or will LibO try to > implement more features that *may* be included in ODF 2.0, becoming > so a technical cutting edge application? > > They are two completely different visions of the project, I think. > > I hope you understand what my point is, here. So there are two things to understand here, aside the fact that you're asking a question which I think will have to be decided on the future; yet the principle is, if we have an ISO standard, why shouldn't we implement it? Now: - ODF does not change very quickly (it's a standard) - ODF is forward-compatible, meaning: ODF 1.0 has X features, ODF 1.2 will always have X +3 or 4 features, which means that unless you use these 3 or 4 features, you will always use the X feature set anyway. In a nutshell: the answer can be political, or practical (every other implementation uses a certain version, etc.) but it does not fundamentally affect users for the moment. best, Charles. > > Regards, > > Gianluca -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***
