On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Lance Gleason wrote:
I am a polyglotter who programs in both Java and Ruby. I have an itch that
I needed to scratch where I need to have the advanced features such as
picture handing in Excel documents that POI offers in a native rails app.
There is nothing out there in Ruby-land and your your compilation option
doesn't work at all for me (plus from the documentation on the site the
graphics extensions have other dependency issues).
The POI ruby extensions are alas largely unsupported - none of the current
committers make us of it. We haven't had any user supported patches for
quite a while on it :(
As of this writing I have the project up on github here
https://github.com/lgleasain/poi_pond. Once I get the functionality
that I need to scratch my own itch I plan on publishing that as a first
gem and then reving as I add functionality or fix bugs etc.. Others are
welcome to fork the project, add code etc..
What would be the best way for me to compliment your efforts with my gem?
I guess the first thing would be if you could ensure that your code
supports everything that the old ruby code did, so we can remove it in
favour of your (supported!) code.
Secondly, would you be interested in contributing your code to POI?
Nick
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