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Subject: Re: Benefit from Open Office sources?
From: David Faure <dfaure () klaralvdalens-datakonsult ! se>
Date: 2003-01-04 17:29:36
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On Saturday 04 January 2003 16:54, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> No, we do not use OO's source.
>
> It is not because it is a program that you can reuse its code (like apples and
> oranges are fruits but you cannot mix them to create a new fruit.)
>
> Any program code makes assumption, in particular in which support library it
> uses (for example GTK for GNOME, QT for KDE.) Already this makes it difficult
> to re-use code.
>
> However, KOffice uses a few libraries that are used by other applications
> (like libxml2, which comes from the GNOME world.)
and libhnj, for hyphenation, from Open Office.
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David Faure -- faure@kde.org, dfaure@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions
Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/
KOffice-1.2.1 is available - http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.2.1/
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