Re: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-18 Thread Rainer Klute
"Niall Pemberton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >It seems to me that the org.apache.poi.util.LittleEndian class doesn't cater >the for situation for ClassID as it returns numbers and not byte[] - so if >you use it's methods you still have to convert to a byte[] after. > >I think the following version of Cl

Re: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-18 Thread Rainer Klute
Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Here is where everyone stopped thinking and ranting began. > >Just a few notes: >... >... [http://jakarta.apache.org/site/source.html] Ken, thanks for pointing us to that page! That was really helpful! Best regards Rainer Klute

Re: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-17 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Rainer Klute wrote: > Hi POI folks, Here is where everyone stopped thinking and ranting began. Just a few notes: 1. [http://jakarta.apache.org/site/source.html] Simple patches to fix bugs can be committed then reviewed. NKB says: "If Rainer saw that Andy committed bugged code, he could hav

Re: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-17 Thread Niall Pemberton
Apologies if this has been sorted, I'm not actually on the POI mailing list - just getting into it. It seems to me that the org.apache.poi.util.LittleEndian class doesn't cater the for situation for ClassID as it returns numbers and not byte[] - so if you use it's methods you still have to conver

Re: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-17 Thread Rainer Klute
>Thanks. This may be enough for me to fix the method. I'll investigate it fur ther. Give me a few >days as I'm working on something else at this very moment. (days not months). I just fixed it. Took me a few hours, though. Best regards Rainer Klute Rainer Klute I

Re: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-17 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
> No, I did not mean this because it really does not help you and > it is in a different context. > > I meant this one: > > Following the header is the section list. This is an array of > pairs each consisting of a section format ID and an offset. > This array has as many pairs of ClassID and

Re: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-17 Thread Rainer Klute
"Ryan Ackley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just committed changes to the ClassID class that allow it to compile. I >wasn't sure of the original intention of the author but I think I got it. My >wife is yelling at me as I write this because we are going out of town. >Could someone please test it f

Re: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-17 Thread Ryan Ackley
All, I just committed changes to the ClassID class that allow it to compile. I wasn't sure of the original intention of the author but I think I got it. My wife is yelling at me as I write this because we are going out of town. Could someone please test it for me? I will be gone until next Monday

Re: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-17 Thread Rainer Klute
>>You did, I did it to collaborate in finishing the work. Because no one under stands this >>underdocumented piece, no one could work on it but you. Catch-22. >> >>If I kept the code locally, no one could help finish this right? right. No. There is *never* any reason to check in broken code. I

Re: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-16 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Sorry guys this got munched by my ISPs defective email server. >>>"Andrew C. Oliver" apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> >/>>This isn't really about that though is it, its your wounded pride. If you >don't want/ >/>>to have to deal with others messing with your code, by all means don't >opensource

Re: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-16 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
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RE: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-16 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
/At the moment since I couldn't figure out what the method should do enough to rewrite it to the LittleEndian classes, etc, I'm throwing a runtime exception. If you can read that, match it up to the documentation and we can figure out what it does, we should be able to reimplement it! I'm ce

Re: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-16 Thread Rainer Klute
>Is it not possible to work with Andy to get this class fixed? I don't know >the details but it doesn't sound like there's a much really stopping this >>from happening. If you can work with us to help fix this I'm sure we can >have it done relatively quickly. Ryan's offered to help and I'm will

Re: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-16 Thread Glen Stampoultzis
>>> So please cast your votes on the priorities outlined above! >>> Thanks! >> >>-1 - a more reasonable alternative: quit sulking and help me understand >>http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/javadocs/javasrc/org/apache/poi/hpsf/ClassID _java.html#ClassID >>(scroll to the method clearly marked REWRITE M

RE: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-16 Thread sackley
> Read this method before you vote! and if someone other than rainer (who donen't have time) > wants to give me a hand in figuring that method out, that would be appreciated and probably > make this whole argument moot! Andy, I am willing to help. I haven't been following this thread, what e

Re: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-16 Thread Rainer Klute
"Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This isn't really about that though is it, its your wounded pride. If you don't want >to have to deal with others messing with your code, by all means don't opensource it. This is not true. I don't mind others changing "my" code. Remember, it is no

RE: [VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-16 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
> Hi POI folks, > Hi. > after a rather long time-out I am back to the project and willing > to start working again. However, before I continue with HPSF > development I'd like your votes on what to do first and what to > do later. The prioritization, if you like our opinion is fine, but it

[VOTE] HPSF priorities

2002-07-15 Thread Rainer Klute
Hi POI folks, after a rather long time-out I am back to the project and willing to start working again. However, before I continue with HPSF development I'd like your votes on what to do first and what to do later. The current situation is intolerable because HPSF is simply dysfunctional. In