Re: binfilter removed in LO 4.0 : how to communicate on this change?

2012-11-12 Thread Andras Timar
On 2012.11.11. 22:00, Michael Stahl wrote: to finish the cleanup i have just removed the binfilter .xcu file from the filter configuration... There are still some traces of these old formats in the codebase. See for example git grep StarCalc 3.0. However I do not understand all hits. Some look

Re: binfilter removed in LO 4.0 : how to communicate on this change?

2012-11-12 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:59:42PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.fa...@sud-ouest.org wrote: Indeed, that will work for me and others who use Linux and perhaps MacOS. I will convert my old files or, better, export them in PDF/A. Thanks a lot. But what about for users using MS-Windows ? Is

Re: binfilter removed in LO 4.0 : how to communicate on this change?

2012-11-12 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Hi Miklos, Miklos Vajna-2 wrote On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:59:42PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Faure lt; jbf.faure@ gt; wrote: Indeed, that will work for me and others who use Linux and perhaps MacOS. I will convert my old files or, better, export them in PDF/A. Thanks a lot. But what about

Re: binfilter removed in LO 4.0 : how to communicate on this change?

2012-11-11 Thread Michael Stahl
On 10/11/12 10:33, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: 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

Re: binfilter removed in LO 4.0 : how to communicate on this change?

2012-11-10 Thread Andras Timar
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

Re: binfilter removed in LO 4.0 : how to communicate on this change?

2012-11-10 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
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

Re: binfilter removed in LO 4.0 : how to communicate on this change?

2012-11-10 Thread Alex Thurgood
On 11/10/2012 08:17 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Hi Jean-Baptiste, - 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

Re: binfilter removed in LO 4.0 : how to communicate on this change?

2012-11-10 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Hi Alexander, Le 10/11/2012 10:44, Alex Thurgood a écrit : On 11/10/2012 08:17 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Hi Jean-Baptiste, - 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

Re: binfilter removed in LO 4.0 : how to communicate on this change?

2012-11-10 Thread Miklos Vajna
Hi JBF, On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 05:33:30PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.fa...@sud-ouest.org wrote: You are right, of course, but this electronic diary does not have any legal value (AFAIK). I want to keep unchanged the modification date because that makes finding files easier and shows that

Re: binfilter removed in LO 4.0 : how to communicate on this change?

2012-11-10 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Le 10/11/2012 21:46, Miklos Vajna a écrit : Hi JBF, On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 05:33:30PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.fa...@sud-ouest.org wrote: You are right, of course, but this electronic diary does not have any legal value (AFAIK). I want to keep unchanged the modification date because

binfilter removed in LO 4.0 : how to communicate on this change?

2012-11-09 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Hi, In order to make this change as smooth as possible, I think we should give clear and complete information to the users: - release a complete list of legacy formats which are dropped. Is there something else than sd? formats (StarOffice 5 formats) ? - perhaps it would be fair to add a