Re: [Libreoffice] Are ISC/BSD-licensed contributions acceptable?

Why not see if someone can try to port it to python or code something in 
another language that would be more beneficial instead of java?

On 11/25/10 1:52 PM, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 09:47 +0100, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> > in bug #31633 I proposed a patch to one of the export filters.
>         I've just committed it; sorry for delay.
>
>         It's great to have you prodding at this piece of the code. One of the
> sad things about the XSLT filters is that they require Java - yielding
> not only a performance problem, but a nightmare for those without Java
> installed. Perhaps this underlies some reluctance here too:
>
>         https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31624
>
>         around associating with this file type by default (in case you have no
> working Java).
>
>         It would be simply wonderful to re-use the libxslt code (that we
> already ship) for the XSLT filter. I wonder if you might be interested
> in that ? if not - adding an easy hack to the wiki would be good [ and
> pointing me at it so we can add some code pointers as to how to do
> that ].
>
>         Thanks !
>
>                 Michael.