Hi Andras, Le 10/11/2012 10:00, Andras Timar a écrit : > Hi Jean-Baptiste, > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure > <jbf.fa...@sud-ouest.org> wrote: >> - release a complete list of legacy formats which are dropped. Is there >> something else than sd? formats (StarOffice 5 formats) ? > It affects only old binary formats of StarOffice 5 and earlier versions. Ok, that reduces the number of affected users ;-) > BTW shoudn't we remove traces of binfiler from filter/, too? > "cd filter && git grep BF_" gives a lot of hits. Yes, that would make the things more clear. >> - what the user can do with its old files: I think it is not enough to >> say "you have to convert them with an old version of LibreOffice". For >> example, I have old sdw and sxw files in my laboratory diary and I do >> not want to lose their modification date if I convert them in ODF. What >> should I do and what advice I could give to an end-user who is in the >> same position? > sxw and other XML based formats are not affected. Indeed, the master is still able to open my sx? files. > I opened an old sdw file (rsc\doku\feinkonz.43\rsc.sdw from > LibreOrfice source) and it did not have modification date, In fact it > had no metadata at all. Are you sure that this format supports > metadata? Of do you mean the modification date at the file system > level? touch -r file.sdw file.odt Yes, I mean the modification date at the file system level. I know that some images converters are able to convert photo from a format to another without changing this date. So it is probably possible to do the same for old documents.
My problem is to have all necessary informations to help end-users to keep their old files/data in a readable format without losing important informations. I think the modification date is one of them. Best regards. JBF -- Seuls des formats ouverts peuvent assurer la pérennité de vos documents. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice