[gentoo-dev] New local use "binfilter" for app-office/openoffice

[gentoo-dev] New local use "binfilter" for app-office/openoffice

[Andreas Proschofsky]

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Hi everyone,

I've added a new local use flag called "binfilter" to
app-office/openoffice. This enables building support for legacy
StarOffice 5.x file formats. My advice: Only build with this, if you
really need it, this will add considerably to the overall build time.

bye
Andreas
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Andreas Proschofsky
Gentoo Developer / OpenOffice.org

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Re: [gentoo-dev] New local use "binfilter" for app-office/openoffice

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Andreas Proschofsky wrote:
| Hi everyone,
|
| I've added a new local use flag called "binfilter" to
| app-office/openoffice. This enables building support for legacy
| StarOffice 5.x file formats. My advice: Only build with this, if you
| really need it, this will add considerably to the overall build time.

"binfilter" is a very non-obvious name for what it does to anyone
unfamiliar with the build system. Why not call it "staroffice"?

Thanks,
Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-dev] New local use "binfilter" for app-office/openoffice

[Andreas Proschofsky]

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Hi Donnie,

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:58 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> "binfilter" is a very non-obvious name for what it does to anyone
> unfamiliar with the build system. Why not call it "staroffice"?

"binfilter" is the project name of this stuff in OOo, so that's the
reason it was chosen. It might not be perfect, but it is easy enough to
find out what it does (and most shouldn't care about it anyway) but
"staroffice" would be a lot worse in my opinion, as this is just for
some ancient StarOffice formats, while the more current ones are
supported by default (so it would suggest something wrong)

Actually I thought about that issue in advance, but decided that
something like "binfilter" is better than something complicated like
"staroffice-legacy".

bye
Andreas
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Andreas Proschofsky
Gentoo Developer / OpenOffice.org

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