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1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
libgsf
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Author: Rick Ju
1.3 Date of This Document:
27 May, 2008
4. Technical Description
1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
libgsf GNOME Structured File Library
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Author: Rick Ju
Sponser: Irene Huang
1.3. Date of This Document:
05/11/2008
2. Technical Description:
2.1. Details:
The GNOME Structured File Library (libgsf) is a utility library
for reading and writing structured file formats.
libgsf could read and write common file types and handle structured
formats that provide file-system-in-a-file semantics. There are
some additional utilities for document centric applications.
Support for MS OLE2 streams is complete, as is zip import. There
is also support for document metadata and some initial work on
decompressing VBA streams in OLE files for future conversion
to other languages. This library replaces libole2 and is used in
gnumeric, mrproject, abiword, libwv2, koffice. It is also part of
the AAF format.
Furthermore, the gsf CLI is a simple archive utility which operates
on files following one of the structured file formats understood by
libgsf. gsf-office-thumbnailer is used internally by GNOME applications
to generate thumbnails and is declared Project Private.
2.2. Interfaces:
Exported Interfaces
Interface Classification Comments
--------------- - --------------
-----------------------
libgsf API Volatile
gsf CLI Volatile Please refer to
gsf-cli.txt
gsf subcommands Volatile See gsf.1
cat
dump
help
list
props
gsf-office-thumbnailer Volatile See
gsf-office-thumbnailer.1
SUNWlibgsf Uncommitted libgsf base
packaging
contains binary,
libraries.
SUNWlibgsf-root Uncommitted libgsf root
packaging
contains schemas.
SUNWlibgsf-devel Uncommitted lbgsf development
packaging
contains headers
and documents.
Imported Interfaces
Interface Classification Comments
--------------- --------------- -----------------------
GLib Commited LSARC/2006/202
libxml2 Stable PSARC/2006/290
zlib Stable PSARC/2006/537
gnome-vfs Volatile LSARC/2006/202
libbonobo Volatile LSARC/2006/202
2.3. Doc Impact:
Man page is needed.
2.4. Packaging & Delivery:
SUNWlibgsf(base package) - base package for
binaries
SUNWlibgsf-root (root package) - root package for
schemas
SUNWlibgsf-devel (development package) - develoment package
for header and documents
2.5. Dependencies:
libgsf depends on Glib, libxml2, zlib and libbonobo.
2.6. L10N Impact:
There are string changes. Hence this should be taken care.
2.7 Security Impact:
None.
3. Reference Documents:
libgsf-cli.txt - gsf command line help
gsf.1 - manpage for gsf
gsf-office-thumbnailer.1 - manpage for
gsf-office-thumbnailer
SUNWlibgsf-pkgmap.txt - pkgmap for SUNWlibgsf package.
SUNWlibgsf-root-pkgmap.txt - pkgmap for SUNWlibgsf-root
package.
SUNWlibgsf-devel-pkgmap.txt - pkgmap for SUNWlibgsf-devel
package.
6. Resources and Schedule
6.4. Steering Committee requested information
6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
Desktop
6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
6.6. ARC Exposure: open
