Newbie: Data import question

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Jun 8 12:04:33 EDT 2009


David Goodenough <david.goodenough at linkchoose.co.uk> writes:

> On Monday 08 June 2009, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> David Goodenough <david.goodenough at linkchoose.co.uk> writes:
>> >> Now, you COULD work on fixing the QSF importer before it gets ripped out
>> >> for lack of love.....
>> >
>> > That is something I could look at.  Where do I start looking for it (in
>> > the 2.3.1 source) and how do I enable it?
>>
>> The code is in src/libqof/backend/file
>> As for enabling it.... I think it just needs to get loaded, but I'm not
>> 100% sure.
>
> I will have a word with Neil Williams to see if he can recall, I see he was 
> the original author, and I have had dealings with him on debian-embedded.

It's been long enough since he's worked on it I doubt he'll have any
better idea than just looking through the code.

>> > My C is a bit rusty (I am normally a Java coder), but I am happy to give
>> > it a go.  What kind of love does it require?  Are there known bugs, or
>> > are the problems more basic than that?
>>
>> The problems are more basic -- it's extremely fragile, memory leaks,
>> memory corruption... It just doesn't work.  It needs a lot of love.
>> It was completely unstable and could crash a lot, too.
>
> OK, I will have a look and see what I can do.  I think that for business use
> this is a rather important function, and as I need it I will see what I can
> do about implementing it.

Fair enough.

>> There are probably a bunch of QSF bugs in bugzilla..
> I will have a look

Cool.  Thanks!

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-derek

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