Le jeudi 03 juillet 2008 à 12:08 +0800, Halton Huo a écrit : > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 21:08 +0200, Jean Bréfort wrote: > > Le mercredi 02 juillet 2008 à 19:05 +0800, Halton Huo a écrit : > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I've two questions on goffice, not sure it is right place to ask, if > > > not, please let me know. > > > > > > 1. What kinds of documents does goffice support? > > > I searched GOffice code base, I got lots MS support like: > > > * god-image.h: MS Office Graphic Object support > > > I can not get more information than it. > > > > Goffice does not support any document type AFAIK. It provides various > > utilities, one of the most important being the chart engine used by > > gnumeric and gnucash. > >From READE, I get: > There are common operations for document centric applications that are > conceptually simple, but complex to implement fully. > - plugins
For each plugin, we have a library (the plugin) and an xml file describing the services it provides. New service types can be added by client applications if needed. The plugin itself is loaded only when needed to speed up the startup process (and don't load at all unneeded code). > - load/save documents This is implemented in libgsf, not goffice > - undo/redo No implementation in goffice > Could you give more information here? If possible, update this document > or webpage is very helpful. > > > > > > 2. License > > > From COPYING and REAMDE file, goffice is GPL licensed. I searched the > > > code base and found it is GPL/LGPL mixed. My understanding goffice is a > > > library, it would be good if it is LGPL. How do you think then? > > > > Most of the code was originally extracted from the gnumeric source tree > > for which the license is GPL-v2. Changing the license to LGPL would > > make impossible to move more code from gnumeric (and would need the > > agreement of all contributors). See > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463248 for a discussion about > > changing the goffice license. You'll see that things are not so easy. > Thanks for updating. I got the situation now. > > Cheers, > Halton. > > > > Regards, > > Jean > > _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
