From: Dom L. <ci...@ho...> - 2002-06-13 14:38:23
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Integration into your product? Unless your product is GPL'd, you have quite a legal mess on your hands. Dom >From: "Corby Wilson" <co...@ei...> >To: <ci...@ho...>, <tjm...@tj...>, ><wvw...@li...> >Subject: RE: [Wvware-devel] wv2 status and Poi++ >Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:15:05 -0400 > >Agreed. The reason I asked is that I've been debugging wv for the last >two weeks for incorporation into our product and was wondering if I was >wasting my time. After looking at the POI HDF project though it became >apparent how immature the project is. >I will continue to fix up wv as, indeed, it is the best thing out there. > >Corby >Senior Software Engineer > >-----Original Message----- >From: wvw...@li... >[mailto:wvw...@li...] On Behalf Of Dom >Lachowicz >Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:13 AM >To: co...@ei...; tjm...@tj...; >wvw...@li... >Subject: RE: [Wvware-devel] wv2 status and Poi++ > >I wouldn't say that at all. wvWare has a very singular purpose - to read > >(and eventually write) msword docs. Which underlying OLE2 library we >choose >to use in order to read the document streams is irrelevant. > >The POI HDF project aims to do something similar to what wvWare already >does. POI also does so in Java, which doesn't play well with the main >driving force behind wvWare at the moment, which is the C++ AbiWord >project. >POI HDF is only in planning stages. wvWare is production-level quality, >working code. > >You're free to spend your time as you'd like to. > >Dom > > >From: "Corby Wilson" <co...@ei...> > >To: <ci...@ho...>, <tjm...@tj...>, > ><wvw...@li...> > >Subject: RE: [Wvware-devel] wv2 status and Poi++ > >Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:45:53 -0400 > > > >Would it be correct to say that wvWare is going out of scope in favor >of > >other systems like POI. Should I be concentrating on these other > >projects instead? > > > >Corby > >Senior Software Engineer > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: wvw...@li... > >[mailto:wvw...@li...] On Behalf Of Dom > >Lachowicz > >Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:19 AM > >To: tjm...@tj...; wvw...@li... > >Subject: Re: [Wvware-devel] wv2 status and Poi++ > > > >wv1 will be ported shortly to use GNOME2's gsf module, which is a > >C/GObject > >based structured file library which is in part based on POI. > > > >Dom > > > > >From: "T.J. Mather" <tjm...@tj...> > > >To: <wvw...@li...> > > >Subject: [Wvware-devel] wv2 status and Poi++ > > >Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:41:53 -0400 (EDT) > > > > > >Currently work on wv2 is stalled, because the author, Werner Trobin, >is > > >busy. Writing to the MS Word format is very difficult, and should > >ideally > > >only have to be done once, by one library. The HDF subproject of > >Apache > > >POI looks very promising. It's written in Java, and there is work > > >underway to provide a C++ port of it. > > > > > >http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/hdf/ > > > > > >HDF is under active development, and borrows elements from wv2. > > >HDF has the advantage of using XML and XSLT for automatic code > > >generation. wv2 uses HTML and Perl for automatic code generation. > > >IMHO, using XML and XSLT makes it easier to develop and maintain. > > > > > >So I think it would be ideal to pool our resources with the Apache >POI > > >project, generating a Java and C++ library with similar APIs. > > >After all, it is much easier to translate their Java code to C++ than > >it > > >is to grok the MS Office file format :). > > > > > >Furthermore, since a lot of the POI code is automatically generated > >with > > >XSLT transforms, it should be easy to adapt the stylesheets to target > >C++ > > >as well as Java. > > > > > >If you're interested in HDF, I'd suggest signing up for the Apache >POI > > >devel mailing list. If you're interested in the C++ port in > >particular, > > >I'll be happy to provide more details. > > > > > >-TJ > > > > > >On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Corby Wilson wrote: > > > > > > > P.S.: What is the state of wv2. Do you need any help? > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________________________ > > > > > >Sponsored by: > > >ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Wvware-devel mailing list > > >Wvw...@li... > > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wvware-devel > > > > > >-- > >Men are incapable of using sex to get what they want. Sex IS what men > >want. > >Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. 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