>> 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 :(
I've wanted to remove it, but I think it is "good" we left 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. +1 > Secondly, would you be interested in contributing your code to POI? +1 I was writing essentially the same message when Nick's came through. Regards, Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
