Re: Request to be maintainer of Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer package

Thank you for your discouragement which is really realistic. But like I need it for my job, I improve it and want it to give it open source. And I keep an eye on this package OpenDocument but I don't want contribute while the version 0.3.0 isn't implemented. I have contributed to Wikini, for improving the XHTML-valid support. But my main code isn't public because it owns to my company. I use principally these packages : HTML_QuickForm, HTML_QuickForm_advmultiselect, HTML_Template_PHPLIB, HTTP_Session2, MDB2, MDB2_Driver_pgsql, Mail, Net_SMTP, Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer. I have personnally a preference over file formats. 2009/8/3 Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com>: > > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Progi1984 <progi1984@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> The Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer package  seems to be orphaned. >> The last release is well over 3 years old.And there didn't seem to be >> any SVN activity since 2 years. And the actual maintainer is inactive. >> >> As web developer in a French company, I use pear every day for the >> development of Intranet. I would like to contribute to pear, and more >> particularly Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer. Actually, i began fixing bug >> one after another. > > It's actually a quite complicated package which is several versions out of > date from the original perl version, with poor documentation (ie; the specs > from microsoft are incomplete); so I would discourage you from looking after > it all by yourself! > > If you are really interested, it might be worth looking at alternatives - > ie, http://pear.php.net/package/opendocument is our current > best hope. > > That being said, do you have a few samples of code you are particularly > proud of? > Or are there any packages you use at work you'd be interested in > participating in? > >