Hi Carl, Am 15.06.2011 00:59, schrieb Carl Marcum: > Hi Christian, > > On 06/14/2011 05:20 PM, Christian Lippka wrote: > >> Reasoning >> >> The binfilter module is a huge set of code duplicated from all >> application modules and various high level >> modules. It's main purpose is to implement load and store of pre xml >> binary document formats >> from the StarOffice era. Removing this code would spare us a lot of work >> while we try to have our >> first release buildable and running. >> >> Caveats >> >> While replaced by xml formats way back in 2002, there are still >> documents in the binary format >> around so at least loading them may be a requirement for some users. > > > Would this include the MS xls, doc, formats?
No, it wouldn't. It's just about the StarOffice/OpenOffice.org internal binary document formats, that have been deprecated for almost 10 years now. Regards Kai
