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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Forward/backward compatibility
From:       Werner Trobin <trobin () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-03-31 20:16:12
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On Sunday 31 March 2002 21:52, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 09:08:33PM +0200, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > On Sunday 31 March 2002 17:46, Werner Trobin wrote:
> > > Hi!
> >
> > (...)
> >
> > > I plan to break this compatibility even more, but I will provide
> > > scripts to convert these documents to 1.1.1 and 1.0 compatible ones. Is
> > > this enough, or do we want to have some user interface for that? If we
> > > want a UI, do we want a separate tool, or something in the apps or even
> > > the file dialog?
> >
> > The best would be a few export filters.
> >
> > However, we have again the problem that the "save" dialog/system works
> > with mime types and that you cannot have mime types with the same
> > extension.
> >
> > Why export filters? A user can use it simply at save.
>
> hmm; so the user must select if he wants to open it in koffice 1.1 or in
> 1.2? And how do you propose to do this in the old koffice?

It's not about opening, opening works in any case, as it's easy to keep 
compatibility for the old format. The problem is writing a file with a new 
version and opening it in the old version. As we can't manipulate the code of 
the old version we have to know what to do on writing.

> The only way to do this is in the import filters; and werner asked about
> how to do this. You kind of misunderstood it seems.

No, I think Nicolas got me :-)

So far I'm still trying to get the needed changes done and "bugfree", this 
stuff is a bit messy...

Ciao,
Werner
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