RE: Making PHPExcel available via a pear channel?

I do have very good news on the PEAR channel coming later this week. Best regards, Maarten From: Fr@nck [mailto:progi1984@gmail.com] Sent: dinsdag 8 juni 2010 13:33 To: Maarten Balliauw Cc: Mark Baker; Daniel O'Connor; maarten; PEAR Dev; erik; Matthias Backhaus; Carsten Schmitz Subject: Re: Making PHPExcel available via a pear channel? Come back one month later Any other opinions on this? 2010/5/10 Maarten Balliauw <maarten@balliauw.be> Any other opinions on this? Best regards, Maarten On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Fr@nck <progi1984@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, may be a support of PHP 5.x will be more profitable for PHPExcel. Actually, PEAR::SEW is compatible with PHP 4.x and older... (http://pear.php.net/package/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer in the bottom of the page). So with a migration to PHPExcel from PEAR::SEW, the user must lock its code from PHP 4.x to PHP 5.3. Franck 'Progi1984' LEFEVRE PS : Very sorry for my bad english 2010/5/3 Maarten Balliauw <maarten@balliauw.be>: > Anyone has something to add on the discussion regarding backwards > compatibility? > > Best regards, > Maarten > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Fr@nck <progi1984@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> For the moment, my username is Progi1984 (surprise :p) ... and the >> project will be PHPExcel when the discussion will be closed. >> >> But the discussion stays open on the backwards compatibility : what >> does the PEAR Group think about that ? >> >> Best Regards >> Franck 'Progi1984' LEFEVRE >> >> 2010/4/27 Maarten Balliauw <maarten@balliauw.be>: >> > For everyone who wants to join in: >> > - Let me know the projects you would like to work on >> > - Register at www.codeplex.com >> > <http://www.codeplex.com/> and pass me your username >> > - I'll make sure you have SVN access >> > >> > Best regards, >> > Maarten >> > >> > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Fr@nck <progi1984@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Marteen, >> >> For me, as I said before, it's not a problem for integrating >> >> PHPExcel's team. My knowledge is principally in BIFF5/8 (the Excel >> >> binary format) and OpenDocument. So I could help in this two parts. >> >> And I may help in PHPWord & PHPPowerpoint implementation of >> >> OpenDocument format. >> >> >> >> Best Regards >> >> Franck 'Progi1984' LEFEVRE >> >> >> >> 2010/4/26 Maarten Balliauw <maarten@balliauw.be>: >> >> > Hello Franck, >> >> > >> >> > Efforts means indeed development efforts. These 3 projects are >> >> > gaining >> >> > more >> >> > and more feature requests and are also hitting performance problems >> >> > related >> >> > to processing large input/output files. >> >> > >> >> > Daniel --> PEAR channel is on my todo... >> >> > >> >> > Best regards, >> >> > Maarten >> >> > >> >> > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Fr@nck <progi1984@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> What do you mean for 'efforts' ? Do you want to talk about the >> >> >> two >> >> >> actuals developpers (me and Carsten) ? >> >> >> >> >> >> Best regards >> >> >> Franck >> >> >> >> >> >> 2010/4/26 Maarten Balliauw <maarten@balliauw.be>: >> >> >> > None as far as I know. The same discussion points are still alive: >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Should we be backwards compatible with PHPExcel? >> >> >> > Should PEAR SEW project and efforts be merged into PHPExcel or >> >> >> > vice-versa? >> >> >> > Should efforts be extended to PHPPowerPoint and PHPWord as well? >> >> >> > >> >> >> > The PEAR channel is still on my to-do list. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Best regards, >> >> >> > Maarten >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Fr@nck <progi1984@gmail.com> >> >> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Hi all, I see that the discussion stagnate since a week. >> >> >> >> Which decisions are in pending ? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Franck 'Progi1984' LEFEVRE >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 2010/4/23 Mark Baker <mark@lange.demon.co.uk>: >> >> >> >> > On 21/04/2010 11:03, Maarten Balliauw wrote: >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> > Hi all, >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> > As a fun sidenote: there's now also a project PHPWord >> >> >> >> > (http://phpword.codeplex.com >> >> >> >> > <http://phpword.codeplex.com/> ) which may benefit from the binary >> >> >> >> > .doc >> >> >> >> > format >> >> >> >> > and ODF support as well. >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> > I've already signed up for PHPWord to look at .doc and >> >> >> >> > OOWrite >> >> >> >> > readers/writers >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> > --- >> >> >> >> > Mark Baker >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> > >> > >> > >