Fridrich Strba wrote:
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> Andrew Ziem wrote:
> ~ Yes, I noticed how the integration works, and I appreciate its
> | simplicity. I am disappointed the preprocessing/postprocessing is not
> | yet (or ever will be?) integrated into the mainstream OpenOffice.org.
> | It would be a solution to provide additional support such as Microsoft
> | Works word processor .wps which I developed in libwps. Fridrich helped
> | and provided integration for upstream, but it was not accepted there
> for
> | various reasons. As an alternative, it would have been relatively
> easy
> | to add .wps support as an extension the same way as odf-converter if
> the
> | pre-/post-processing support were upstream.
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> Andrew, you know, that if you wanted to make the filter an extension, it
> should not be very difficult. You just compare what does the
> STABLE-0-1-0 branch of wpg2odg, where I used to build a plugin wpg
> importer. But be aware that as long as you release something, there will
> be users and they will expect someone to fix bugs they find. Are you
> ready to do that? Do you have the resources? Maintaining an OOo plugin
> might be quite a work from my own experience.
Hi Fridrich,
You are right: I don't have much time. That is why I have not pushed
for libwps to be upstream. However, as an extension (vs. upstream)
there may be less users and therefore less work. :) Actually, as you
know, libwps has been in ooo-build, Ubuntu OOo, NeoOffice, etc., but I
have received few or no emails or bug reports in the 14 months or so
that libwps has been released. It could be interpreted as a lack of
demand for wps conversion.
Andrew
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