[Libreoffice] [PATCH] Filters - Clean up comments in sw_unodraw.cxx & sw_unoredline.cxx

jgraeme jgraeme+lists at gmail.com
Sun Oct 24 14:46:12 PDT 2010


On 24 October 2010 13:04, Caolán McNamara <caolanm at redhat.com> wrote:
> The "binfilter" is the filter which is used to import and export the old
> StarOffice binary formats, it was created by trying to strip down old
> copies of sw/sc/starmath etc. to the minimum required to load/save those
> formats and convert them to the ODF format.
>
> As such its a fairly unloved code base, there's one school of thought to
> delete it entirely ;-), and another to try and munge it out of
> LibreOffice to be a separately buildable extension that can be quietly
> forgotten about. Either way, there's more bang for your buck in looking
> at the equivalent current sw/sc/starmath dirs for translations and
> fixups.

Thanks Caolán for that info. I probably should have asked before
jumping in, it's just I found those dated comments in filters first
and started from there. Anyway I've got another patch I'd already done
but now I'll move to doing the equivalent files in sw, I'll just look
at it as practice!

Graeme


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