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Subject: Re: [dev] Will OOo version 3 preserve backwards file compatibility with OOo 2 ? Date: Wednesday 28 June 2006 7:05 pm From: Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: dev@openoffice.org David, David Wilson wrote: > In terms of the file format they would be. Older versions of Writer would > just ignore the extensions. The question is how much backwards > compatibility do we need to build in. > > In the current version of Writer every time you insert a Bibliography > Entry / Citation the full set of bibliographic data (author, publisher > etc.) is stored with each Entry, and no link is made with the source of the > entry. The only way to correct a Bibliography Entry is to find each one and > edit its data, or correct the database and reinsert the relevant > Bibliography Entries. backward compatibility is often regarded a holy cow. The ones saying that you never ever are allowed to break it (often representing commercial entities), while others saying that such a beast never existed (often voiced by open source protagonists), that you are always allowed to do whatever you want, at least on the ABI level. So, my personal approach mostly is, if I do not expect to annoy to many people, I just break it and see what happens, otherwise I keep it. > David Sorry for not being to helpful here, I am sure Michael Brauer has more to say Kay --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------- David N. Wilson Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic OpenOffice Project http://bibliographic.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
