[libreoffice-users] Re: Saving SXD = Blank Doc

On 10/15/2011 01:45 PM, Cor Nouws wrote:
> NoOp wrote (15-10-11 00:44)
> > On 10/14/2011 01:03 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
>
> > > As it turns out, the minutes of the conference calls of the technical
> > > steering committee are available on the developer mailing list :
> > >
> > > news://snews.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel
> > ...
> > Thanks. Any hint on which one I should be looking at? I can't seem to
> > find the reference in the 10/06/2011 minutes of tech. steering call ...
>
> I did a search for binfilter + minutes here
>    http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/
>
> The minutes of tech steering call ... are the ones to look at.

Thanks Cor; I was looking for it in the most recent minutes. Found it:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-May/011485.html
<quote>
* announcing binfilter as deprecated in 3.4
        + want to warn people in plenty of time
        + officially deprecate it, we drop save support in 3.4
        + be warned - it will die in a new major release soon.
</quote>

However further in the thread:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-May/011573.html
> Hi *,
>
> 2011/5/6 Pierre-André Jacquod <pjacquod at alumni.ethz.ch>:
> > [...]
> > > >         + be warned - it will die in a new major release soon.
> >
> > Will be this 3.5 ? Or do you want to wait for the next version? If post 3.5,
> > then I will continue the cleaning. If no, I may change my work and try to
> > perform cleaning (ergh, deletion) as proposed here below.
>
> Please at least have one release for people to be "warned" by lack of
> write support.
>
> But of course we can/should start communicating the removal of binfilter now.
>
> ciao
> Christian

And the 3.4.3 release notes do not indicate that write support has been
dropped:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/#LO343

Maybe it was thought that this blurb was sufficient:?
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-4-new-features-and-fixes/
Filters Features and Fixes
<quote>
Substantially re-work legacy StarOffice (pre 2000) binary file format
filters, removing all export code: the filters are now smaller and
read-only, this also removes clutter from the 'Save As' dialog
(Pierre-André Jacquod)
</quote>
??



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