El Dijous, 13 de febrer de 2014, a les 08:21:48, Alexander Semke va escriure: > Hi, > > > Do you really need that embedded liborigin? > > The development of this code was originally initiated in LabPlot and got > later contributions from other projects. A library was created. It is/was > used for the import of Origin files. At the moment we don't import anything > but ascii files. However, at some point we maybe have to pick up this code. > > I'm not a big fan of providing import/export-stuff for proprietary file > formats in open-source software. To be honest, I want to convince the users > to use LabPlot by the quality of the software in general and not by the > quality of import-filters for some fancy windows software that is very > often used out there. But if there are to many requests for this feature in > the future, we'll probably revive this dead code. > > The code can be downloaded from [1]. So, maybe you're right. We can kill > this code in the repository until we decide to use it later. And if we > decide to use it, we should decide whether to use it as an external shared > library or not.
That's the thing, if the code can be downloaded separately, it is much better just using it as a proper library and not embedding it into your sources. Cheers, Albert > > > [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin/
