Suggestion: depend on writerperfect directly for wordperfect/visio/works import filter

[Cyrille Berger Skott]

Hi,

Sounds good to me. Just make sure the dependency is optional, but that should 
not be a problem.

On Saturday 19 November 2011, Yue Liu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Recently when working on visio import filter I found I'm basically
> copy codes from writerperfect. Then I investigated wpd import filter
> in words and found it used codes from a old version of writerperfect,
> wpg import filter in karbon used a convenience method from libwpg to
> convert to svg but some apps don't support svg well. If I implement
> vsd2odg and wpg2odg I have to copy codes again from writerperfect.
> 
> So I think why not depend on writerperfect directly? It will save a
> lot of maintenance effort, and if we want to do any improvement we can
> go upstream directly. Writerperfect is maintained by the authors of
> libwpd,libwps,libvisio,libwpg, and many distros already have
> package(libvisio has no stable release yet so we need to depend on git
> version currectly, i've made PKGBUILDs for Arch).
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> Yue Liu
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Cyrille Berger Skott