Excel filters for Writer

[Michael Stahl]

On 23/05/12 21:42, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 15:18 -0400, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Does anyone know what this filter
>>
>> http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/filter/source/config/fragments/filters/MS_Excel_5_0__StarWriter_.xcu
>>
>> is for?
> 
> No idea really. It always struck me as odd and I never heard of anyone
> actually fixing or implementing anything in them. They were moved to
> binfilter ages ago, binfilter/bf_sw/source/filter/excel should be their
> base implementation. I doubt anyone would notice their absence.

yeah, but why invest effort in removing them now when the whole
binfilter will be removed for LO 4 anyway?