[Fwd: extend PEAR::OLE to get Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader into PEAR]

I'm not sure why you emailed me in particular since I don't have anything to do with the OLE, mearly committed some CS fixes. Anyway I'm forwarding this to pear-dev -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Andreas Korthaus <akorthaus@web.de> > To: helgi@trance.is > Subject: extend PEAR::OLE to get Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader into PEAR > Date: 21 Sep 2005 12:25:45 -0000 > [This message has been brought to you via pear.php.net.] > > Hi Helgi ! > > I've talked to Vadim Tkachenko, author of phpexcelreader, a package for > reading Excel files some time ago. He proposed his package for PEAR > (Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader) last year: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=107409182100002&r=1&w=2 > > PEAR devs told him to change his code to be conform to PEAR coding > standards, to change the license and to use PEAR::OLE. He completed all > the tasks, except using PEAR::OLE, because there are missing some > methodes he needs for reading Excel. > > He told me that he has contacted the author of OLE, but he seems to be > very busy, so there has not been changed anything which prevents > Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader to be included in PEAR for 1.5 years now. > > I've seen that you committed some code to PEAR::OLE too (which has not > been released by the way), so perhaps you have an idea what to do to > make it possible to include Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader into PEAR soon. > > That's the needed functionality: > > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpexcelreader/base/Excel/oleread.inc?rev=1.1.1.1&view=auto > > phpexcelreader project page: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpexcelreader/ > > best regards > Andreas