Sébastien Villemot wrote: > Philip Nienhuis<pr.nienh...@hccnet.nl> writes: > >> I see by following links from another recent post by you that you are about >> to >> prepare an Octave io-1.0.17 pkg for Debian. > > We have just packaged io 1.0.17 for Debian (see [1]). > > This is the first Debian release for which spreadsheet support works out > of the box.
Good, congratulations! > For your information, I copy/paste below the README that I > included in the package: > > > This package provides support for reading Excel (XLS, XLSX) and OpenDocument > (ODS) spreadsheet files from Octave. > > If you installed the packages recommended by octave-io, the following > interfaces should already be functional: > > * JExcelAPI (JXL): for reading XLS files ... and writing XLS > > * LibreOffice (UNO): for reading ODS, XLS, XLSX, SXC files .... & writing. Plus: .... + WK1, QP1, DBF, XLSM, CSV, etc, i.e. any file format supported by LibreOffice Calc! > Note that the UNO interface is still experimental. It interacts with running > LibreOffice processes. > > Other interfaces (Apache POI, OpenXLS, ODF Toolkit, JOpenDocument) are not > available in Debian because they are either not yet packaged or non-free > (e.g. the poi-ooxml JAR has been removed from libapache-poi-java package since > it depends on non-DFSG-free software). What non-DFSG-free SW? AFAICS it is released under Apache license, as is xbean (=taken from xmlbeans). Or is dom4j's BSD style license the culprit? > You can still manually download and install the corresponding JARs in > /usr/local/share/java, they should be autodetected. The > chk_spreadsheet_support > function can help you diagnose problems if any. > > More information on spreadsheet support can be found in READ-XLS.html and > READ-ODS.html. > > >> FYI: I plan to make a new io pkg release (v. 1.0.18) fairly soon; it fixes a >> few bugs and updates to a minor but creepy LibreOffice UNO-Java API change >> (that they didn't tell me about earlier ;-( ) > > Of course, we will package this upcoming release when it becomes > available. If you want to have it in the next Debian release (Wheezy), > this should be done before June. In principle I got the release ready, but unexpected trouble came up now that it again contains compiled modules (inherited from the miscellaneous pkg). So June doesn't look out of reach, does it :-) Philip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
