On 2 December 2011 19:08, Boudewijn Rempt <b...@valdyas.org> wrote: > On Friday 02 December 2011 Dec, C. Boemann wrote: >> On Friday 02 December 2011 18:35:13 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: >> > On 2 December 2011 17:31, C. Boemann <c...@boemann.dk> wrote: >> > > On Friday 02 December 2011 09:32:56 Boudewijn Rempt wrote: >> > >> In Words, the following filters are broken because they convert to/from >> > >> the old kwd format which was removed. They are still installed, though, >> > >> and appear in the file dialog as options (and then don't work...) >> > >> >> > >> palmdocexport >> > >> palmdocimport >> > >> wmlexport >> > >> wmlimport >> > >> oowriterexport >> > >> oowriterimport >> > >> mswriteimport >> > >> mswriteexport >> > >> docbookexport >> > >> wpimport >> > >> wpexport >> > >> rtfexport >> > >> asciiexport >> > >> > Don't care for the exotic formats. But asciiexport? Or simple htmlimport? >> > Can we (longer term) have the tasks of reusing the code maybe for >> > calligra akademy or even more advanced kind of junior jobs? > >> Yes obviously we need to have replacements for those > > Yes... The issue is, these filters are all _very_ old. Nobody who wrote them > is around anymore. The coding principles vary widely. The approach, ditto. > Whenever we want to resurrect a filter, we end up rewriting it. The > alternative is to create a generic kwd-odt-kwd filter, but that will lead to > very weird problems. >
Yes, that's what I assumed. I also have never been fan of longer filter chains because quality is better for dedicated one-step filters. -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
