For some reason, I failed to consider this question until some restless sleep this past weekend.
My understanding is that the improvements in OOXML handling are to be made available under the ALv2 license. However, if those are in the form of patches, their usefulness to AOO will depend on whether or not the AOO *has* an available implementation for OOXML export already. There needs to be something that the patches could be re-engineered against. I know OOXML export is not enabled in the current release builds. Is there any unreleased code that is part of the AOO code base and, if so, shouldn't work on that being released go ahead regardless, even if it shows up as an experimental feature while shaking it out? - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Jürgen Schmidt [mailto:jogischm...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 04:08 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Will AOO write .docx? On 2/7/13 9:44 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Andrea, > > Andrea Pescetti schrieb: >> On 01/02/2013 David Gerard wrote: >>> Is .docx writing scheduled for AOO any given time, 4.0 or later? >> >> I expect that sooner or later we will implement it. But, in order to >> avoid unnecessary duplication of work, we will want to take a look at >> what comes out of the OSB Alliance effort >> http://s.apache.org/openoffice-aceu2012-day-3 >> before tackling it. In short, I see it reasonable to expect this for >> some 4.x version, but not for 4.0. >> > > LibreOffice has already integrated parts of it. Shouldn't we ask > Matthias Stürmer to sent us the source code? > the work was done on the LibreOffice code base which is no surprise because Suse and Lanedo were contracted to do the work. It is also no surprise that there is no patch available today. The information I have is that the patches will be provided at the end of the project. And if we can then use the patches is open and depends on the code itself and the dependencies to other work not directly part of the OSBA project. We tried to emphasize this problem with Mathias Stuermer during the ApacheCon EU last year. We should simply wait until we have seen and reviewed the first patches. But to make it clear for everybody we are willing to collaborate on this topic with other projects and especially LO to provide the best and most complete solution for the users of OO and the eco system around free open source based office productivity suites. When I read in the morning that a user was introduced to uninstall OpenOffice and install LibreOffice 4.0 and after that he had problems with an OpenOffice doc file (whatever doc means in detail) where formatting was lost or where things looked different. These are the issues which are more serious and they damage the whole eco-system and another company will be quite happy to read such things :-( Juergen
