Re: [Libreoffice] errors in idl files

Hi Tomas,

On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 18:02 +0100, Tomas Hlavaty wrote:
> I would like to report a few errors in idl files, see below.

        It seems mst fixed them already, but thanks !

> Also, is the binary format of the binary rdb files specified and
> described somewhere?

        Hah - that thing is a total mess & write-off; the format is very
wasteful, and I know of no docs - if there are they're obsolete since we
changed it.

        The best thing to read is the code that reads/writes that which lives
in the:

        store/source/

        module in 'core'. The original idea of this was some transactional
in-file filing system that could store your E-mail (for the original
mail-app); it is horribly over-engineered and under-performant for what
we want - and we're dying for a replacement / re-write. The existing UNO
APIs provide a read/write capability that is un-necessary as well; it'd
be fine to create that just once at compile time and never touch it
again.

        Of course; if you want to see what is in a .rdb file, just use
'regview' from the solver/*/*/bin on it to see it as text.

        Thanks for digging into this !

        ATB,

                Michael

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