Re: [kde-community] msoscheme joining kde
On 13 May 2016 at 12:28, Jos van den Oever wrote: > On Friday 13 May 2016 01:25:48 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > > +10 > > > > We need more general-purpose projects like > > that. > > Cool. What's the next step to getting a project? > > Look if the 'msoscheme' name is general enough according to what you (correctly) suggested. Maybe xml-something? Then: Get a git repo and phabricator project - sysadmin ticket. Create a page on the community wiki. -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] msoscheme joining kde
On Friday 13 May 2016 01:25:48 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > +10 > > We need more general-purpose projects like > that. Cool. What's the next step to getting a project? Cheers, Jos ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] msoscheme joining kde
On 13 May 2016 at 00:28, Jos van den Oever wrote: > Hello all, > > Calligra relies on a project called MSOScheme. This project generates Java > and > C++ from an XML description of the Microsoft Office binary file formats. > > The project used to be on Gitorious. Gitorious closed and MSOScheme needs a > new home. > > The code is not moving very fast and currently only Calligra uses it. The > code > only supports MS Office files, but it would be great to support more file > formats. > > Writing XML instead of code for parsing and serializing has great > advantages. > You prevent many memory errors and can work on optimization without > understanding all the separate file formats. This approach helped Calligra > to > have very fast MS Office parsers. At the time this was needed for running > well > on Nokia Maemo and Meego phones. > > As an example of the flexibility, there are 3 types of C++ generated. One > that > can parse with zero allocations, one that is a bit more easy to use but > does > use allocations and a third one that has full introspection on the parsed > data > and can output it as an XML tree for easy debugging or conversion with XML > tools. > > https://gitorious.org/msoscheme/msoscheme.git/ > > I believe the project could be useful for more than just Calligra. I'm > writing > a small demo to create a parser for tar files as a simple tutorial. > > +10 We need more general-purpose projects like that. And IMHO if there's a way to make (generate) a C++-only version of the tool then even better. Larger audience. Best regards, > Jos van den Oever > > > ___ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
[kde-community] msoscheme joining kde
Hello all, Calligra relies on a project called MSOScheme. This project generates Java and C++ from an XML description of the Microsoft Office binary file formats. The project used to be on Gitorious. Gitorious closed and MSOScheme needs a new home. The code is not moving very fast and currently only Calligra uses it. The code only supports MS Office files, but it would be great to support more file formats. Writing XML instead of code for parsing and serializing has great advantages. You prevent many memory errors and can work on optimization without understanding all the separate file formats. This approach helped Calligra to have very fast MS Office parsers. At the time this was needed for running well on Nokia Maemo and Meego phones. As an example of the flexibility, there are 3 types of C++ generated. One that can parse with zero allocations, one that is a bit more easy to use but does use allocations and a third one that has full introspection on the parsed data and can output it as an XML tree for easy debugging or conversion with XML tools. https://gitorious.org/msoscheme/msoscheme.git/ I believe the project could be useful for more than just Calligra. I'm writing a small demo to create a parser for tar files as a simple tutorial. Best regards, Jos van den Oever ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
