Re: Google Summer of Code

>> >> >> 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. I didn't because I thought I might as well just join the PHPExcel team, which I had full intention of doing. It wasn't until after Christian had added his OLE code, that I saw that the PHPExcel framework could not handle different data types, like dates, which were very important for me, and that my BIFF parser was able to detect. I eventually got distracted from PHPExcel with other ideas that I had and converted to packages here in PEAR and, of course, real work that pays the bills ;) > > 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) > I think it'd be easy to slap something together... might be a good project for students as the specifications would be easy enough to define and the subject is very easy to understand. -- David Sanders shangxiao