On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Rainer Schwarze wrote:
At 13:21 20.09.2006, Nick Burch wrote:
Unfortunately, the guy who wrote most of HWPF went to work for a company
that has licensed the file format docs from Microsoft, before he got
everything working. That does mean that some things don't work, and
there's not really anyone around who knows enough about the word file
format to be able to provide fixes.
Thanks for the information. I seem to remember that I read that
somewhere on the HWPF web pages but would not have expected that there's
so little activity on HWPF compared to the big work and interest on
HSSF.
It's all a question of developers with the know-how being willing to spend
the time on the code. We only had the one guy (Ryan) doing HWPF work, so
with him gone there's no-one to contribute new code, but also no-one to
mentor new HWPF coders.
Sounds like you know more about the word file format than most of us do.
Don't suppose you fancy contributing some patches? :)
I'm not sure whether my brain is happy with word file format knowledge
or not... (Sometimes its definitely not...) Anyway, providing patches
would surely be interesting. I'll stick my head out of my box when time
is ready for patches :-) (Now climbing back into my box brooding over
word format.)
Great, we'd love to have you on board. If you have patches, just post them
to bugzilla, and maybe drop a note to poi-dev explaining it. Ideally,
submit patches with test cases, so we can be sure that future changes
don't break your code.
If you have coding queries, give us a shout on poi-dev. If you have word
format queries, it's often worth trying asking the other open source
projects. The koffice powerpoint guy gave me some useful insight into how
everything fitted together when I was starting on hslf.
Nick
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