Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice general ideas and suggestions

Le 2010-10-07 09:27, Charles Marcus a écrit :
> On 2010-10-07 8:54 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
> > In all reality, the older formats are no longer being developed and
> > aren't most of these offered in older versions of OpenOffice? I imagine
> > there isn't any need to examine and reverse engineer the code anymore?
> > Keeping them on the list of supported formats in the LibO "File->open
> > would be nice.
>
> Correct - I don't think anyone was suggesting that support for them be
> *removed*. Someone had suggested only providing support for *improving*
> the newer formats, which is what I disagree with. I do understand that
> resources are limited so some bugs with older formats might go unfixed
> if they require a lot of resources, but don't just unilaterally refuse
> to even look at the bugs - let the devs decide which ones are easily
> fixable or not.

Sorry. Thanks for setting this straight. Yes, it does sound that if a 
dev were interested in fixing a bug it would be a bonus. I imagine that 
there wouldn't be too many outstanding bugs to fix. If there were, for 
examples, one week reserved to quash these bugs and all the devs helped 
out, would that be enough to close them? It may be just as easy to fix 
them altogether as a project and be done with it. I can of see this also 
as time wasted as, if the old formats are imported but with a few 
quirks, then I think most users would find it reasonable to rework them 
under a new format. Makes for a good case for the open document formats!

I can think of my old Wordperfect files and the images not coming 
through at all sometimes or grids or some old DbaseII files. But as long 
as we can salvage the bulk of it is great.

Marc

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