On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:58:48 +0200, Kai Ahrens <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi Andrea,
Am 15.06.2011 00:40, schrieb Andrea Pescetti:
...<snip>
Even though I highly trust the developers when they say that
binfilter
is unmanageable, I share these concerns. It would be best to package
binfilter as an extension if feasible, or at least to have a simple
conversion tool available for download (not an older version of OOo,
but
a small, dedicated tool that users could download if needed, and
that
can be run separately from OOo).
I'm absolutely fine with this proposal. I just don't want to have
this
code within the bare OOo product itself.
Regards
Kai
I think we have to consider making a lot more stuff into extensions
or whatever means to make the build optional. One "Mike Meeks" found
that we have to clean up the source of some copyleft components:
http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2011-05-26.html
I mentioned in Rob Weir's blog that there are replacements for
some stuff
gnu regex --> Google RE2
Hunspell --> ispell
But some of that stuff is actually bloatware. I think libwpd, libwps
and libwpg are basically in the same boat as binfilter: the
functionality shall me made optional as external modules in the
and maybe carried previous openoffice repositories. Perhaps the LO
guys want to maintain them.
cheers,
Pedro
