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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Compound File Format reader
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2009-12-23 7:04:04
Message-ID: 200912230804.04945.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Wednesday 23 December 2009, Brad Hards wrote:

> For what it is worth, I'm working on a Qt-based Compound File Binary File
> Format parser. It isn't done yet, but maybe only a few more weeks. I'll
>  upload it to playground when it gets a bit more mature.

Sounds cool!

> I've used both GSF and POLE, and while both are OK, the lack of a Qt API
> became annoying. Also, POLE can only read from a file, and making it write
> looked pretty hard, plus Ariya doesn't really seem to be maintaining it any
> more.

I don't think so either, especially not the copies in KOffice :-).

> 
> GSF is good and well maintained, but very general (e.g. handles other file
> formats) and it uses an "almost but not quite" object-oriented C API that
>  just confused me every time I tried to make it do something even remotely
>  non- standard.

Well, I'm not really trying to make it do anything, I am just trying to move 
wv2 from sourceforge to koffice, as is.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org

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