Re: Google Summer of Code

Hi On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:17 PM, David Sanders < dsanders@baselinesolutions.com.au> wrote: > > >> > >> > >> 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 ;) > Would be cool to have in PEAR, PHP 5 stuff :-) Would mean Christian would have to make a OLE2 tho (something you'd be interested in doing Christian ?) Is the OLE package something we should hang on to, the concept, if we do a excel writer PHP 5 thing ? > > > 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. I'd like to see a PHP 5 project for the writer, maintenance project would be hard to get in I think, the way I see it David and Christian could mentor it since they have an understanding on the OLE and reading and it would be valuable to have them on the project since we'd try to make the reader and writer a bit unison and of course the assistance to the student as to how to interact with OLE etc etc etc. Something you guys would be interested in helping out with ? Smells like the first solid idea for GSoC ;) - Helgi