On 09/04/2012 03:49 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
On 9/4/12 3:42 AM, Lei Wang wrote:
Hi,
So we have plan to remove import/export code from application
modules(sw,sc,sd...) and implement import/export function in binfilter. Is
there any document about this feature? What's the current status ?
no, the plan is more to drop the older binary formats and to drop the
ugly binfilter module. I think a good candidate for this drop is the
next major version.
This is of course a change where people will have different opinions on
it. But I personally see no real problem, the code becomes smaller, the
officer becomes smaller and the old formats can be migrated by an
existing version, for example AOO 3.4.
The default is ODF and most users don't use the older binary formats.
But again these formats can be migrated with existing and still
available older version of the office.
We should start a new thread to discuss this drop of binfilter for the
next major version.
I have some old files that I had no reason to touch for many years, and
now, I no longer have a program that can touch them..... So the files
are pretty much orphaned.
So that is what we will do with the older OOo file formats? I just want
to be clear that I need to find these files and then manually convert
all of them before support is dropped. I don't like writing my own
extractors from scratch, but I have done it before. Usually to help some
family member that I can't say no to that has old files in some format
that they just procrastinated on and the old program just stops working
on their new platforms (or something equally as strange).
--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
