Development

Please file any bugs you might find in libwpd in our bug tracking database. By following this link you'll be able to file your report. Note that you need to have a bug reporting account, which you can create there as well. This allows us to contact you when we need additional information about your report.

Bugs which specifically (only) deal with OpenOffice.org should be filed in their issue tracking database instead. When in doubt, please file in ours.

Please visit our project page to get the bleeding edge versions of the packages from CVS. The CVS modules of greatest interested are libwpd2 (the latest iteration of libwpd) and writerperfect.

The libwpd API specification as well as the libwpd library documentation can be found here. A no frames version can be found here.

The Corel Developer SDK is the best resource available for reverse engineering WordPerfect Office documents. It contains comprehensive documentation of WordPerfect internal file structure.

To make sure that future releases only get better and not break already working things, an automatic regression testing suite has been created. The latest results of this test can be found here.

If you want to participate in the discussion of libwpd's development, please join the libwpd-devel mailing list.

libwpd-cvs, a list devoted exclusively to tracking recent commits to the libwpd source repository is also available.

Supporting libwpd development

The easiest way to support libwpd development is by submitting patches to the source (see the previous paragraph). If you are not a programmer or simply don't have the time to work on libwpd, you can still help by making a donation or paying for the development of specific features that you need. Please contact the libwpd maintainers for details.