broken filters in words

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 3 December 2011 15:51, Sebastian Sauer <mail at dipe.org> wrote:
> On 12/02/2011 05:31 PM, C. Boemann 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
>>> amiproexport
>>> amiproimport
>>> htmlexport
>>> abiwordimport
>>> abiwordexport
>>> lateximport
>>> latexport
>>> starwriterimport
>>> htmlimport
>>> dcmimport
>>>
>>> At the very least, we shouldn't install them -- but should we compile
>>> them
>>> at all? Should the code even remain in the repositories? We've seen with
>>> doc, rtf and html that if we want to reinstate support for broken file
>>> formats, that we usually rewrite the complete filter
>>>
>>>
>>> Some of the broken formats, like ms-write are also listed in Words'
>>> desktop
>>> file:
>>>
>>>
>>> MimeType=application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text;application/vnd.oasis.open
>>>
>>> document.text-template;application/msword;application/rtf;text/plain;applic
>>>
>>> ation/x-mswrite;application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessin
>>>
>>> gml.document;application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml
>>> .template;
>>>
>>>
>>> X-Calligra-DefaultMimeTypes=application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text,applica
>>>
>>> tion/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-template,application/msword,application/rt
>>>
>>> f,text/plain,application/x-mswrite,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedoc
>>>
>>> ument.wordprocessingml.document,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocume
>>> nt.wordprocessingml.template
>>
>> Yes I vote we remove them from the repository
>
>
> I would prefer to keep them + disable compile + add a comment why / what
> needs to be done so if someone steps in to add/extend a certain filter
> he/she could build up his work on an probably already the existing one.

I wanted to propose that too as this is actually the way what I do
with obsolete but not yet replaced code.
But for others it would be enough to look in git history. If so, let's
create a tag for that revision.

-- 
regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
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