Re: The road to 2.2.

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere_at_teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Mar 29 2004 - 07:28:26 EST

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    On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 14:12, msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:

    > > I estimate that to do this remotely correctly, it will
    > > take at least 1 man year. This is also not a
    > > highly-requested item.
    > >
    >
    > I disagree with the timescale. The code to do basic table import is in. It
    > handles cells spanning rows and columns as well as nested tables. It just
    > needs a bit more love to handle my main use - pasted Gnumeric cells.

    Look at what MS-Word or FrontPage generate and you'll get an idea.
    The problem is with HTML that does NOT validate. This is more than 90%
    of what gets generated.

    > I would like to aim for GUADEC again. We might make it this year. The core
    > is pretty stable now. I use 2.1.1 all the time. The new features and these
    > last items need lots more love though. But I'm always optimistic :-)

    One release every year. Sounds nice. I'll do my best to not miss tha
    MacOS release.

    Hub



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