broken filters in words

[C. Boemann]

On Friday 02 December 2011 19:08:42 Boudewijn Rempt 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 <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.
Yes i didn't mean ween replacement before we remove the old (defunct) filters, 
and I agree there is not much point in keeping the old ones around for 
inspiration