broken filters in words

[Boudewijn Rempt]

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 <cbo at 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.

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