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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Don't publish wv2 from koffice: request for approval to commit
From:       Rex Dieter <rdieter () math ! unl ! edu>
Date:       2010-03-29 17:18:31
Message-ID: hoqnap$ams$1 () dough ! gmane ! org
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Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> Shaheed Haque wrote:
>> 
>> > I'd like to request approval to commit to trunk during the current
>> > freeze this change:
>> > 
>> > http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3437/
>> > 
>> > The idea is to prevent the copy of wv2 in koffice from conflicting
>> > with, or being confused with, the original copy from Sourceforge.
>> 
>> What was the purpose of bundling it with koffice in the first place?
>> Continued development?  forking?
> 
> The msword-odf filter and wv2 need to be developed in tandem: new features
> need changes in both. It was very inconvenient to ask people to update and
> compile wv2 from source every other day, and since the original goal of
> sharing wv2 with abiword failed, and there were no other users of wv2, we
> pulled in the code again.

OK, that was my understanding too, and *ass*umed koffice would be the newer 
provider of wv2.  So, I don't understand the worry about conflicting with 
sourceforge's (older) wv2.  

-- Rex 


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