On 17/09/2014 00:27, nicholas ferguson wrote:
I tossed that investigation aside thinking that that route had been
poured over by LibreOffice experts; and took another look.....
I didn't understand why I had to clean up this mess, with an open
source product that has been on the market, for years....
Sorry, you know the Open Source warranty, don't you? "If it breaks, you
get to keep both pieces"?
The reality is that the guy who originally set it up presumably lost
interest, and if no-one else has been using it, it bit-rotted. That's a
very common occurrence in ALL software, be it Open Source or commercial
- indeed, LibreOffice has just been through a massive clean up of
bit-rotted code which, iirc, deleted a *third* of the code base!!!
It wouldn't surprise me if this feature dated from the proprietary Star
Office days, and obviously got missed in the clean-up. (Which would
explain why the original guy lost interest - he would have done it
because he was told to, not because he wanted to.)
As they say in the Open Source world, if a feature doesn't work for you,
"patches welcome". Sorry you got put to this pain, but it seems obvious
the functionality wasn't important to anyone else. But thanks for fixing
it for the next person :-)
Cheers,
Wol
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