Re: [Tracker] wvText is deprecated

["Klemens Friedl" <frik85 gmail com>]

wvware and ole2 are (very) outdated, and the successor of both
libraries/projects is called "libgsf"
(http://freshmeat.net/projects/libgsf/).

The following projects have already moved from wvware/ole2 or will
move soon to libgsf:
gnumeric, mrproject, abiword, libwv2, koffice

The only downside of libgsf is that it relies on GLib 2+ (gnome-lib).
But this is probably a non-issue for the MetaTracker project.

I have talked recently with the libgsf project maintainer (Jody
Goldberg), and he suggests to move to libgsf, as it supports a lot of
more formats (that are based on ole2) and is more matured than older
unmaintained projects (wvware and ole2).

Klemens


2007/9/26, jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:

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> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:53 +0800, Halton Huo wrote:
> > Jamie,
> >
> > http://wvware.sourceforge.net/#wv
> >
> > tracker use wvText to convert MS word into plain text, here I have some
> > idea about it:
> >
> > [1] Tracker use AbiWrod instead
> > [2] Does openoffice have utility/API to do the convert thing?
>
> dunno about 2 but all major distro's ship wv so we will continue to use
> it until something better comes along