On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 10:24 +0200, Alex Thurgood wrote: > The dev working on LO didn't like the StarOffice binary filter code
Hated it with a passion is probably a better description than "didn't like" - that code screwed us over and held us back very significantly. It was a cut/paste of almost (which is part of the problem, the shared code was really hard to change) the entirety of an ancient version of the code-base, and a disaster in a box from so many aspects - whether security, maintainability, binary download size, etc. etc. > so they got rid of it Whoot :-) > There was nothing seriously broken about the binary filter code used to > support those binary sd* file types I beg to differ =) That it mostly still worked doesn't mean it was not fundamentally broken in many ways that are not immediately visible to those not involved with the code particularly around its design and architecture. > Well, thank you for listening to my little rant for today, I'll crawl > back under that rock I call LibreOffice QA, ROFLMAO. Heh - so, the solution to this problem is (IMNSHO) to work on the new libreveng versions of these filters to (at least initially) rescue the core data, and ultimately the full feature set in less code, and inside a much cleaner and more maintainable infrastructure. Its not such difficult work even - it doesn't even require re-building the main LibreOffice code (just that particular smallish filter), and I'm sure Fridrich & co. would love help there if newbie developers want to get involved. ATB, Michael. -- michael.me...@collabora.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted