Re: [boost] [gsoc] Suggestions on Proposal for Boost Document Library Project

18 Mar 2015

      Sir

Could you point to the specific parts which you think make the project
hugely ambitious ? Is it that the functionalities that I'm proposing too
many (ie. the scope is too broad) or that the different API's I'm thinking
to cover over different platforms a bit too difficult to achieve ?

Thanks

Anurag Ghosh

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Stefan Seefeld 
wrote:
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On 18/03/15 12:18 PM, Antony Polukhin wrote:
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2015-03-18 19:07 GMT+04:00 Stefan Seefeld :
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Second, I don't think an interface to existing office suites is the
right approach to the problem. Rather, I would suggest something based
on existing standard technologies such as XML (and DocBook in
particular), to support the manipulation of structured documents.
Without using existing Office suit API, student will be forced to rewrite
the functionality of Open Office from scratch. Working with spreadsheets
is
not just parsing document, but also evaluating functions, plotting charts
and so on... This is hell and nightmare. And it will take insane amount
of
time ( about 2,190 years of effort
https://www.openhub.net/p/libreoffice/estimated_cost)
So the approach with unification of APIs seems right to me.
Well, yes, that's what I meant with "manipulating documents on a
semantic level". I agree, writing this from scratch is wrong. But just
providing a programmatic interface to an office suite seems ill-designed
to me, at least for a project other than LibreOffice itself.
For Boost I think one should at least attempt to build the functionality
on top of a standard document model such as XML/DocBook.
Stefan
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