From koffice  Sun Mar 09 12:18:22 2003
From: Werner Trobin <trobin () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 12:18:22 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: wv2 0.0.8 released
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=104721244328492

Hi!

I just released version 0.0.8 (codename "Otto") of the wv2 library. You can 
get a tarball containing anonymous CVS information at 
http://www.sf.net/projects/wvware
Alternatively you can "cvs update" your local snapshot using anonymous CVS and 
the release tag WV2_0_0_8 (cvs update -r WV2_0_0_8).

Compared to 0.0.7 it doesn't come with any new features (except a regression 
test suite) but some bug fixes. The most important changes are:
- Fixed a bug in the list handling code (for Word 8+ in compatibility mode)
- Fixed a crash in handling of stale field marks (Word doesn't seem to clean 
up the field marks sometimes)
- More robust table parsing (the correct sub document is restored), now fields 
inside tables work too, even if the table rows are parsed after finishing the 
main body text.
- Compiles with Visual C++ 7 now, thanks to Duncan Wilcox

Requirements:
- Working C++ compiler with a recent STL implementation. Tested with gcc 
2.95.2, 2.95.3, 3.2.2, pre3.2.3, Intel C++ 7.0, and Visual C++ 7. Please tell 
me about problems on other platforms
- Recent iconv installation, should be a part of every modern Linux. FreeBSD 
users might have to install libiconv (http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv)
- libgsf-1.7.2 (ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgsf/1.7). This 
library depends on glib 2 (www.gtk.org) and libxml2 (www.xmlsoft.org), if 
libgsf-1 is configured with the --without-gnome option (wv2 doesn't need the 
libgsf-gnome library).

As libgsf uses pkg-config (http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/) 
during the build process, wv2 needs pkg-config to detect libgsf-1.

If you have problems with building wv2, please contact me.

If no major bug in 0.0.8 is found this will be the last release for a longer 
period, as I plan to add support for Word 6 and Word 95 files for wv2-0.1.0. 
The aim is to support at least the same feature set as the old Word filter 
for KOffice 1.3beta1.

Ciao,
Werner

P.S. Right now KWord has strange bugs in the table rendering code, so KWord 
will enter infinite loops or crash on some documents. This is not related to 
the import filter, though.
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