broken filters in words

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 2 December 2011 19:08, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at 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 <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, that's what I assumed. I also have never been fan of longer
filter chains because quality is better for dedicated one-step
filters.

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