Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Hi Ruediger, Rüdiger Timm wrote: That's a joke, isn't it? From my point of view of course it has to be (according to your numeration) 1. 4. 5. 2. 3. Why would you copy additional stuff into binfilter? We did enormous efforts to get that monster stripped, and you plan to blow it up

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Hi Mathias, Mathias Bauer wrote: I think the problem is that you can't give a fixed order for 2,3 and 4. This must be checked for every single case. Perhaps Kay should point this out in the wiki. I disagree here. Actually the right order is 2,3,4: 3 certainly comes after two, as copying parts

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Hi Heiner, Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote: Thorsten Behrens wrote: b) move _all_ modules below binfilter into that module, possibly after stripping them to the necessary minimum. Build it once, and tuck it into a safe place (comes close to a, but is smaller integrates with OOo3).

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Ruediger, Rüdiger Timm wrote: Sorry, now I see your other mails. Looks loke a mail server problem. I saw the mails appearing in reverse order as well, did not expect you to answer sooo fast :-) Rüdiger Kay - To

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi Kay, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: FYI Matthias Huetsch, Malte Timmermann, Michael Brauer and I recently had a discussions regarding how to deal with binfilter in case of incompatible changes of modules used by binfilter. I am still wondering why nobody invited me to

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Armin, Armin Le Grand wrote: I do, but what about the suggestion? Repeating here: Comparing the costs spent up to now by all and that will be spent until the goal is reached, i again have to suggest (as years ago) to do it once, by one person and for the next public release. The resulting

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Malte Timmermann
Armin Le Grand wrote, On 02/07/07 11:40: Freeze means: Add all still missing and urgently necessary C++ dependencies methodically: Link without the standard modules and add missing code. Yes, this might take a while and is not easy but might have been done by one person

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi Rüdiger, Rüdiger Timm wrote: Armin Le Grand wrote: [...] I haven't read that restriction anywhere. Kays proposal was about any incompatible change below binfilter. It's not a restriction, it's logic. Why else should code be moved to binfilter ATM? Kay is right because

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi Malte and Kay, i will also answer Kay's reply here, he was just asking for the amount of work, too... Malte Timmermann wrote: I also prefer making binfilters completely independent from any other OOo code. Constrain is to keep it as small as possible. It might be difficult to

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-06 Thread Rüdiger Timm
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: Hi Rüdiger, being late to the thread, and being the one who implicitly initiated this ... Why would you copy additional stuff into binfilter? Because binfilter has a code base which lives several years in the past, whilst the current code

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-06 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny
Hi Rüdiger, Thanks for the details. Yes, I totally understand your problem, I think. But, what you did is what I proposed, not what was written here as recipe. You first evaluated to adapt binfilter to the incompatible changes. After spotting all the difficulties you searched for an

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-05 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Mathias Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As long as no must changes are due the only disadvantage of binfilter in its current form is that it must be rebuilt sometimes. That's bearable. That reads each time for almost everybody outside Sun. But OTOH, it would prolly only shave off 3 minutes on

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-05 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Jens-Heiner Rechtien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thorsten Behrens wrote: Hm - hard to estimate how many of those binary documents are still in active use. And it would be interesting if they are kept just because of laziness, or for good reasons (I clearly suspect the former). Laziness is

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-05 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny
Hi Rüdiger, being late to the thread, and being the one who implicitly initiated this ... Why would you copy additional stuff into binfilter? Because binfilter has a code base which lives several years in the past, whilst the current code base moves forward constantly. At some point, you

[dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-02 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
FYI Matthias Huetsch, Malte Timmermann, Michael Brauer and I recently had a discussions regarding how to deal with binfilter in case of incompatible changes of modules used by binfilter. We came up with the following recipe: For every request of an additional module for / change of

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-02 Thread Mathias Bauer
Hi Kay, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg schrieb: We came up with the following recipe: For every request of an additional module for / change of binfilter the following steps are to be tried in the following order: 1. Check if the dependency could not be removed / avoided

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-02 Thread Rüdiger Timm
Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: FYI Matthias Huetsch, Malte Timmermann, Michael Brauer and I recently had a discussions regarding how to deal with binfilter in case of incompatible changes of modules used by binfilter. We came up with the following recipe: For every request of an

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-02 Thread Pavel Janík
On 2.2.2007, at 14:11, Rüdiger Timm wrote: Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: FYI Matthias Huetsch, Malte Timmermann, Michael Brauer and I recently had a discussions regarding how to deal with binfilter in case of incompatible changes of modules used by binfilter. We came up with

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-02 Thread Caolan McNamara
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:18 +0100, Pavel Janík wrote: What about making binfilter SO only module? ;-) -1 Unfortunately .sdw etc documents exist and are a fact of life, we do still need to import them. e.g. my performance review still comes in .sdw format, we wouldn't want to drop importing

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-02 Thread Mathias Bauer
Rüdiger Timm schrieb: Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: FYI Matthias Huetsch, Malte Timmermann, Michael Brauer and I recently had a discussions regarding how to deal with binfilter in case of incompatible changes of modules used by binfilter. We came up with the following

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-02 Thread Mathias Bauer
Thorsten Behrens schrieb: There are at least three possible ways to do this gracefully: a) drop binfilter for the next major release, telling users to convert their documents using OOo2.x. Can even implement a tiny filter replacement, that says so in a message box. IMHO OOo3.0 would

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-02 Thread Rüdiger Timm
Thorsten Behrens wrote: Caolan McNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:18 +0100, Pavel Janík wrote: What about making binfilter SO only module? ;-) -1 Unfortunately .sdw etc documents exist and are a fact of life, we do still need to import them. e.g. my performance

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-02 Thread Jens-Heiner Rechtien
Thorsten Behrens wrote: Caolan McNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:18 +0100, Pavel Janík wrote: What about making binfilter SO only module? ;-) -1 Unfortunately .sdw etc documents exist and are a fact of life, we do still need to import them. e.g. my performance

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-02 Thread Mathias Bauer
Rüdiger Timm schrieb: binfilter isn't static. During the last months even more code has been moved from f.e. sw into binfilter. Yes. Because we discovered even more filters we don't want to maintain anymore. :-) I think the problem is that you can't give a fixed order for 2,3 and 4. This