On 10/15/2011 01:45 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: > NoOp wrote (15-10-11 00:44) >> On 10/14/2011 01:03 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > >>> As it turns out, the minutes of the conference calls of the technical >>> steering committee are available on the developer mailing list : >>> >>> news://snews.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel >> ... >> Thanks. Any hint on which one I should be looking at? I can't seem to >> find the reference in the 10/06/2011 minutes of tech. steering call ... > > I did a search for binfilter + minutes here > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/ > > The minutes of tech steering call ... are the ones to look at. > >
Thanks Cor; I was looking for it in the most recent minutes. Found it: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-May/011485.html <quote> * announcing binfilter as deprecated in 3.4 + want to warn people in plenty of time + officially deprecate it, we drop save support in 3.4 + be warned - it will die in a new major release soon. </quote> However further in the thread: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-May/011573.html > Hi *, > > 2011/5/6 Pierre-André Jacquod <pjacquod at alumni.ethz.ch>: >> [...] >>>> + be warned - it will die in a new major release soon. >> >> Will be this 3.5 ? Or do you want to wait for the next version? If post 3.5, >> then I will continue the cleaning. If no, I may change my work and try to >> perform cleaning (ergh, deletion) as proposed here below. > > Please at least have one release for people to be "warned" by lack of > write support. > > But of course we can/should start communicating the removal of binfilter now. > > ciao > Christian And the 3.4.3 release notes do not indicate that write support has been dropped: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/#LO343 Maybe it was thought that this blurb was sufficient:? http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-4-new-features-and-fixes/ Filters Features and Fixes <quote> Substantially re-work legacy StarOffice (pre 2000) binary file format filters, removing all export code: the filters are now smaller and read-only, this also removes clutter from the 'Save As' dialog (Pierre-André Jacquod) </quote> ?? [1] http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=30271&seqNum=8&rll=1 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
