Re: Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
| From: | Steven Van Ingelgem | Date: | Thu, 06 Nov 2014 10:02:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer | ||
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On 6 November 2014 09:39, Christian Weiske <cweiske@cweiske.de> wrote:
> Hello Steven,
>
>
> > I've never been involved with PEAR itself, but I saw this package was
> > unmaintained, so I would like to take it over and fix the lingering
> > bugs, and add some additional features.
>
> Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer is an useful, but hard-to-get-right package.
>
> Before taking over maintenance, please submit some pull requests on
> github for some of the bugs. Notify us about them on
> pear-dev@lists.php.net. After some useful fixes, you can become
> maintainer.
>
Hmm :-), that's going to be difficult.
I'm re-writing nearly everything in order to make it more OO (more PHP 5
like), and to be more closely linked to the Perl version (so changes in the
future can be more easily ported).
Once I finish I could send the result over though.
Grtz,
Steven