Subject: Re: warning message
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 15:37:58 CDT
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:14:43PM -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Quoting Sam TH <sam@uchicago.edu>:
>
> > This is a bug. We should be trying Psion last, not before RTF and
> > ABW.
>
> Nah, this isn't necessarily a bug. We go through the vector in the order that
> the importer/exporter components are registered to see if they support the given
> file type, extension, etc... So maybe we should enforce some sort of ordering
> rule for when we registering importers, but this is certainly not a bug. Even
> further, we *could* store them in something like a UT_Map where the returned
> order isn't guaranteed. Short story: as long as the doc opens correctly with the
> correct filter, that is the desired effect, and thus, there isn't any bug, but
> rather a debugging message.
I think that some amount of forced ordering is certainly neccessary.
For example, if we had an encrypted document type, where the whole
document had to be decrypted prior to checking, that could take quite
a while. So, at a minimum, we should check ABW, DOC, and RTF before
others.
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