Re: Google Summer of Code

Hi On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Christian Schmidt <lists@chsc.dk> wrote: > Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson wrote: > > Christian Schmidt<lists@chsc.dk> wrote: > >> For reading and writing of Excel 97 (.xls) and Excel 2007 (.xlsx) files > >> I'd recommend looking at the PHPExcel project: > >> http://www.codeplex.com/PHPExcel > >> > >> I know it is not PEAR, but they do offer PEAR packages. > > > > are you sure they do excel 97 and up ? > Yes, but only write support: > > http://www.codeplex.com/PHPExcel/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=2841 > > > http://www.codeplex.com/PHPExcel/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Features&referringTitle=Home > > > BTW, read support for Excel 97 files has been proposed to PEAR: > http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=492 > Hopefully he'll go through with it soon. > > > If so are they PHP 5 and if so do you think you'd be able to convince > > them to join us ? ;) > The last time I looked they code was for PHP5 and uses the PEAR coding > standards. It is released under GPL. > > David Sanders asked last summer whether they'd move to PEAR, but the > lead declined: > http://marc.info/?l=pear-dev&m=118407710110186&w=2 > Well then we should have our own implementation IMHO, bit foolish I think to say "our stuff sucks, use X component from Y project instead" beside the fact they are GPL, something many projects won't be able to use. If we want to sell PEAR to that guy (I don't recall that discussion you are pointing to) then we need to know why he said no (but I'm aiming at the GPL license change that would have to happen) - Helgi